Oil Industrial Site, Bakersfield — Gene Daniels, 1972

Photographed by Gene Daniels in May 1972, Oil Industrial Site documents the petroleum landscape of Bakersfield, California. Created as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s DOCUMERICA program, the photograph records an American industrial landscape at a moment when environmental conditions and the effects of development were becoming subjects of sustained national attention.

Daniels approaches the scene with the direct visual language of documentary photography, allowing industrial infrastructure and the surrounding California environment to define the composition. The result is both a historical record of the petroleum industry and a distinctive example of 1970s federal environmental photography, connecting industrial history, landscape, energy production, and American visual culture.

Artwork Details

• Artist: Gene Daniels
• Title: Oil Industrial Site
• Original title: OIL INDUSTRIAL SITE
• Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern
• Date: May 1972
• Period: 1970s
• Place of Origin: Bakersfield, California, United States
• Medium: Photograph

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