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Gordon Parks : Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/1946

Title

Gordon Parks : Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/1946 / Dan Leers with Philip Brookman ; with additional contributions by Latoya Ruby Frazier, Mark Whitaker ; edited by Dan Leers ; series editor, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.

Author

Leers, Dan

Publication

Pleasantville, New York : The Gordon Parks Foundation ; Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Museum of Art, 2022.
©2022

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Description

221 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : chiefly illustrations (some color), color map; 30 cm

Summary

"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 Stryker--the 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 signature style, Parks spent two years chronicling the plant's industry--critical to Pittsburgh's history and character--by photographing its workers. The resulting photographs, dramatically staged and lit and striking in their composition, showed the range of activities engaged in by Black and white workers, divided as they were by roles, race and class. The images were used as marketing materials and made available to local and national newspapers, as well as corporate magazines and newsletters. However, 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 America by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 photographs, many previously unpublished, this is the first book to focus exclusively on Parks' photographs for the Standard Oil Company, illuminating an important chapter in his career prior to his landmark career as a staff photographer for Life." -- Amazon.

Alternative Title

Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/1946

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

This publication accompanies the exhibition Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh 1944/1946, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, April 30-August 7, 2022.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Eric Crosby and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. -- Gordon Parks in World War II Pittsburgh / Mark Whitaker -- A day at the Grease Plant / Dan Leers -- Gordon Parks: work for my people / Philip Brookman -- The self-portrait behind enemy lines / Latoya Ruby Frazier.

Call Number

Sc+ F 22-379

ISBN

9783969990056
396999005X

OCLC

1314286927

Author

Leers, Dan, author, editor.

Title

Publisher

Pleasantville, New York : The Gordon Parks Foundation ; Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Museum of Art, 2022.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

EXHIBITION CATALOG. CO-PUB. W/ GORDON PARKS FDN. AND CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART. B&W PHOTOGRAPHS.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Brookman, Philip, author.

Container of (work): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006. Works. Selections.

Frazier, LaToya Ruby, 1982- contributor.

Whitaker, Mark, contributor.

Kunhardt, Peter W., Jr., 1982- editor.

Carnegie Museum of Art, host institution.

Gordon Parks Foundation, issuing body, publisher, organizer.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 22-379

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