two children's books about animals and a book featuring macro photography of plants. A devoted animal lover, she spent her mornings in Central Park walking her dog, taking photographs, and making notes that she hoped to turn into a book about the park. In 1991 the Minneapolis College of Art and Design awarded Bubley an honorary doctorate. She died in New York City, of cancer, on March 16, 1998. In 2001 a retrospective exhibition of Bubley's work appeared at the UBS Art Gallery in New York City. In 2005 Aperture Foundation published a monograph about Bubley, Esther Bubley: On Assignment by photographic historian Bonnie Yochelson with Tracy A. Schmid, archivist for the Bubley Estate. In 2010, the Library of Congress published the monograph Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Esther Bubley. Selected exhibitions In and Out of Focus, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1948. Six Women Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1950. Diogenes with a Camera, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1952. Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1955. Esther Bubley, Limelight Gallery, New York, NY, 1956. Out of the Forties, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1983. Documenting America, 1935–1943, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1988. On Assignment: Documentary Photographs from the 1930s and 1940s by Marion Post Wolcott and Esther Bubley, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1989. Esther Bubley: On Assignment, Photographs Since 1939, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1990. Photographs by Esther Bubley, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 1995. The American Century: Art & Culture 1900–1950, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1999. Esther Bubley: American Photojournalist, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY, 2001. Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 2006. Children's Hospital 1951: Photographs by Esther Bubley, Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009. Awards Distinctive Merit, Art Directors Club, 1943. First awards from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1948 and 1949. Third Prize, Life magazine contest for young photographers, 1951. First Prize, Photography Magazine, International Contest, 1954. First Award, Art Directors Club, 1958. Honorary doctorate, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1991. Monographs Zoo pals: Big cats, great apes—a look at zoo life, January 1, 1960 How Puppies Grow, 1971, Millicent E. Selsam (Author), Esther Bubley (Illustrator), How Kittens Grow, 1973, Millicent E. Selsam, A Mysterious Presence: