Roy Stryker: U.S.A., 1943-1950. The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Photography Project.

Intro: Between 1943 and 1950, Standard Oil sponsored the largest
photographic documentation project ever undertaken in America
by anyone
other than the federal government. The photographers of
Standard Oil
recorded "how oil seeped into every joint' of an increasing
technological
nation. Several of America's finest photographers participated
in the
project, including Berenice Abbott, Charlotte Brooks, Esther
Bubley, Harold
Corsini, Arnold Eagle, Morris Engel, Elliott Erwitt, Sol
Libsohn, Lisette
Model, Martha McMillan Roberts, Louise Rosskam, Charles Rotkin,
Todd Webb
and former FSA photographers John Collier, Russell Lee, Gordon
Parks, Edwin
Rosskam, and John Vachon. Considered collectively, the 67.000
photographs
taken fot the Standard Oil project form a vivid pictorial
record of home
front America during and after World War II.