Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46 DEBUT COLLECTION drawings and digital works

drawings and digital works

dramatically staged and lit and striking in their composition

to the mediums and surfaces of modern life

strives to reduce food waste

painterly images that reflect what cannot be perceived by the naked eye

Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46 DEBUT COLLECTION drawings and digital worksBy 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 who was now heading the public relations department for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)commissioned Parks to travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to document the Penola, Inc. Grease Plant. Employing his