Collection Online as of March 29, 2023
Our Kind of People
Honoring your parents, especially your mother, is one of the teaching of DeMolay. Leadership training, love of country, love of parents and the dress code all help to build character so that young men can become Masons or go on in life with the teachings of brotherhood. During DeMolay Week, members pay respect to mothers who have passed on
Bill Owens
(American, b. 1938)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14.8 x 21.4 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.292
Location
not on view
Description
Owens’s project Our Kind of People, shot mostly in the 1970s, explored American groups and rituals ranging from the Girl Scouts to Halloween parties in his native Northern California. With club membership declining today in America, the kind of formal and informal associations documented by Owens are now an endangered species.
Bill Owens
American photographer, born 1938