Esther Bubley
(Phillips, Wisconsin, 1921 - 1998)
Cecil Faris, mayor of Tomball, sitting in front of his gas station
From the series "Tomball, Texas, Standard Oil of New Jersey, 1945"
1945
Gelatin silver print
13 1/2 x 9 15/16 in. (34.3 x 25.1 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the estate of Esther Bubley
2003.17
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At the end of World War II, Bubley went to work for Standard Oil, which hired many of the era’s best documentary photographers to document that “there is a drop of oil in everything.”
Keywords
MaleDocumentary
Gelatin Silver