← ExploreDescription As part of a commission for Shell, Francisco Coto documented several of the company’s gas stations in San José, photographing both their facilities and workers. Decades later, these images also offer a record of the city’s transformation and the growing presence of the automobile: the station’s modernist architecture, gas pumps, and vehicle designs form part of an urban landscape associated with Costa Rica’s modernization in the mid-twentieth century.
Shell Gas Station
San Joséca. 1960Francisco Coto
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