Pump Gallery Photographers, Part 1

Jack Delano (August 1, 1914 – August 12, 1997) - For a biography, please visit our Boxcar exhibit, where Jack Delano is the featured photographer.

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Esther Bubley (1921 - 1998) was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. After college in 1941, Bubley moved to Washington, D.C. seeking work as a photographer, having become interested in photojournalism and in the documentary photography produced by the Farm Security Administration and published in various magazines before the US entry into World War II.

In the fall of 1942, Roy Stryker hired her as a darkroom assistant at the Office of War Information (OWI), which succeeded the Farm Security Administration photographic unit. With the encouragement of Stryker and some of the more senior photographers she moved to taking pictures for the OWI historical section, documenting life on the home front during the war. Her most challenging assignment was a noted series on the bus system in the Midwest and South.

The Bus Story series she produced for Standard Oil, a reprise of her earlier Bus Story for the OWI, earned the award for Best Picture Sequence in the Encyclopedia Britannica/University of Missouri School of Journalism “News Pictures of the Year” in 1948.

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Arthur Rothstein (b. 1915 in New York City – d.1985 in New Rochelle, New York) was an American photographer.

During the Depression Rothstein was invited by Roy Stryker to join the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration. This small group of photographers, including Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Mary Post Wolcott, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Jack Delano, Charlotte Brooks, John Vachon, Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn, were employed to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in the United States.