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        "tombstone": "Working: On our commune everyone has to work. We chase off the freeloaders. The commune has to make money. It has to be a business, then it can grow. The government isn't going to take care of you. You have to band together to help each other, 1976. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 22 x 16.3 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/16 in.); paper: 25.1 x 20.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2019.301",
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        "title": "On our commune everyone has to work. We chase off the freeloaders. The commune has to make money. It has to be a business, then it can grow. The government isn't going to take care of you. You have to band together to help each other",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201c0966M 2500\u201d",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cBill Owens (signed)\u201d",
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                "inscription": "Stamped in black ink on verso: \u201c\u00a9 BILL OWENS/EXTRA BOOK PRINT\u201d",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cW34*\u201d",
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                "description": "George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY",
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        "did_you_know": "There was a serious decline in job satisfaction in America in the last half of the 1970s.",
        "description": "In his examination of people\u2019s attitudes towards their jobs, Owens gives us the subjects\u2019 own words to accompany his images of them. The series was not as much a critique as a mirror that allowed people some distance from which to view their situation. This and his other projects conveyed both the comfort of suburban middle-class life and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment with it.",
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