Owens, Bill. The middle class has no taste for art! I am not a great artist, but people think I am because I have long hair. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1976, printed later. gelatin silver print, Image: 16.3 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.). Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2020.326. Copyrighted.

The middle class has no taste for art! I am not a great artist, but people think I am because I have long hair. Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1976, printed later

Bill Owens

Bill Owens (American, b. 1938)

Photography

Leisure: The middle class has no taste for art! I am not a great artist, but people think I am because I have long hair. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1976, printed later. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.3 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 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 2020.326 Bill Owens began photographing while taking a visual anthropology course in college. He continued his systematic observation of human behavior and social structures as a staff photographer for a local newspaper and in personal photographic projects shot on the weekends. Leisure was the fourth such project, begun in the 1970s but not published in book form until 2004. Watching television was the most popular American leisure pastime in the 1970s.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Owens, Bill
Classification: Photograph
Formatted Medium: gelatin silver print
Medium: gelatin, silver, print
Dimensions: Image: 16.3 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "0911M/1500" Inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Bill Owens (signed)" Inscription: Stamped in black ink on verso: "© BILL OWENS/EXTRA BOOK PRINT" Inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "L112"
Departments: Photography
Accession Number: 2020.326
Credit Line: Gift of George Stephanopoulos
Rights Statement: Copyrighted

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