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Sealed Power Piston Rings

John Paul Pennebaker American

Not on view

Pennebaker was a star photographer at Underwood and Underwood Studios, an agency specializing in news, advertising, and stock photography. This diabolical image, created to promote a new type of automobile engine piston, was included in a 1934 exhibition of the era’s most innovative advertising photography held at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

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