Esther Bubley, American, 1921. Photojournalist Esther Bubley, born in Phillips, Wisconsin, began her career working with Roy Stryker in the Office of War Information during the 1940s. After studies at Superior State Teachers College (1937-38) and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1939), Bubley secured a temporary job in New York City as a freelance photographer for Vogue in 1940. She mov