Greyhound bus terminal (New York) - Esther Bubley - Framed Print - 16"H x 20"W

Greyhound bus terminal (New York) - Esther Bubley - Framed Print - 16"H x 20"W

Esther Bubley was an American Photographer. While Esther was a senior in High School, LIFE Magazine first hit the newsstands. Inspired by the magazine, and particularly by the pictures of the Great Depression produced by the Farm Security Administration, she developed a passion for documentary photography.

After college she moved to New York City. She became a protégée of Roy Stryker at the U.S. Office of War Information and subsequently at Standard Oil Company, shooting freelance photography all over America.

Bubley was certainly a member of  the “New York School of Photography,” a loosely defined group of photographers like Ruth Orkin, Saul Leiter, Ernst Haas, Ted Croner, and Vivian Maier, who lived and worked in New York City during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s sharing influences, subjects and stylistic earmarks.

These photographers would capture life in New York not as “the big city,” but as a collection of neighborhoods, people, and emotions that would later define what we now consider when thinking about the nostalgic way New York used to be.