id:			322110
accession number:	2020.324
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.324
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:22.587000

Working: Electronics Technician, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, 1974–76. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). 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 2020.324

title:				Electronics Technician, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
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series:				Working
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creation date:			1974–76
creation date earliest:		1974
creation date latest:		1976
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creditline:			Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Bill Owens (American, b. 1938)  - artist
American photographer, born 1938
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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.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "V0672/3500"
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	inscription:	Written in black marker on verso: "W-789"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "Bill Owens (signed)"
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	inscription:	Commercially imprinted throughout verso: "Agfa"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY
	date: ?-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 7, 2020
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fun fact:
There was a serious decline in job satisfaction in America in the last half of the 1970s.

digital description:
In his examination of people’s attitudes towards their jobs, Owens gives us the subjects’ 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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