Lot 4178: Bubley, Esther: Greyhound Bus Terminal

"In the Waiting Room" (Greyhound Bus Terminal, 245 West 50th Street, New York). 1940s. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16 x 23,5 cm. 2 Standard Oil Co. stamps, annotated in various hands in red crayon/pencil and typed paper text label on the verso.Esther Bubley was one of the first American documentarists to look at life in America from a woman's point of view. She was one of the last photographers to be taken on by the Farm Security Administration in Washington. Later she was employed by Roy Stryker at Standard Oil and then in the late 1940s by Life magazine. - A few handling creases, bumped edges, otherwise in good condition.
Lit.: Esther Bubley. On Assignment (Aperture). New York 2005.