GORDON PARKS:

By 1944 Gordon Parks had established himself as a photographer who freely navigated the fields of press and commercial photography, with an unparalleled humanist perspective. That year, Roy Strykerthe former Farm Security Administration official now heading the public relations department for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)commissioned Parks to travel to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and document the Penola, Inc. Grease Plant. Parks spent two years chronicling the plants industrycritical to Pittsburghs history and characterby photogra...[Read more]