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Gordon Parks: Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/46 kitchen accessories adaptabilityBy 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