On Assignment
Paul T. VogelOn Assignment
Esther Bubley
Aperture
20 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010-4463
193178857X $35.00 1-800-929-2323 www.aperture.org
On Assignment is a collection of black-and-white and a few color photographs by Esther Bubley, one of America's leading photojournalists who free-lanced for national magazines from the 1940's to the 1960's. Enhanced with a narrative essay describing the working and daily life of a photojournalist in an era before television became as prolific as it is today, On Assignment is remarkable in how its images perfectly capture the subjects, from stills depicting a life-saving emergency tracheotomy to work at a Pepsi-cola refinery to the gracious opportunity for a rare portraits around the home allowed to her by reknowned genius Albert Einstein. An emotional, vivid, and exquisitely memorable monograph.
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