id: 322273 accession number: 2020.328 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.328 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:22.675000 Working: I can take six months or more of on-the-job training to become a microelectronics assembly technician. Only young people can do this work as your eyes don't last. The circuit I'm working on is part of a guidance system for military aircraft. I ride horses and play tennis to relieve the tension, 1976, printed later. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 15.4 x 20.7 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.); paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.328 title: I can take six months or more of on-the-job training to become a microelectronics assembly technician. Only young people can do this work as your eyes don't last. The circuit I'm working on is part of a guidance system for military aircraft. I ride horses and play tennis to relieve the tension title in original language: series: Working series in original language: creation date: 1976, printed later creation date earliest: 1976 creation date latest: 1976 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos copyright: --- culture: America technique: 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: 15.4 x 20.7 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "0975M 2000" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Bill Owens (signed)" translation: remark: inscription: Stamped in black ink on verso: "© BILL OWENS/EXTRA BOOK PRINT" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "W67*" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY date: ?-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 7, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES