id: 291470 accession number: 2016.512 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.512 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:52.341000 Men don't have the patience to become coil winders. This job has lots of tension. Each day is a challenge and you have to learn to relax, otherwise you can break a wire. It took me three weeks to wind my first thirteen loops. These coils are part of a computer recording head. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, 1975. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 16.2 x 20.7 cm (6 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.); paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2016.512 title: Men don't have the patience to become coil winders. This job has lots of tension. Each day is a challenge and you have to learn to relax, otherwise you can break a wire. It took me three weeks to wind my first thirteen loops. These coils are part of a computer recording head. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1975 creation date earliest: 1975 creation date latest: 1975 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos copyright: --- culture: America technique: vintage gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bill Owens (American, b. 1938) - artist American photographer, born 1938 --- measurements: Image: 16.2 x 20.7 cm (6 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)” Written in pencil on verso: “V0799/4000” Written in black marker on verso: “W-489” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES