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In 1944, Gordon Parks traveled to Pittsburgh to photograph a grease plant for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). In his signature style, he chronicled the plant's productivity by photographing its workers and their daily routines. The resulting pictures, dramatically staged and lit, and striking in their composition, show the range of activities of Black and white workers, divided by roles, race, and class.
The images were used as marketing material and made available to local and national newspapers, as well as corporate magazines and newsletters. But they served as much more than documentation of industry - enduring as an exploration of labor and its social and economic ramifications in World War II - era America by one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Gordon Parks : Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/1946 is published in conjunction with an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art.
The book features more than eighty previously unpublished photographs and related archival material along with contributions by Dan Leers, curator of photography, Carnegie Museum of Art ; Philip Brookman, consulting curator of photographs, National Gallery of Art ; LaToya Ruby Frazier, artist and activist ; and Mark Whitaker, author of Smoketown : The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance.