Collection Online as of March 25, 2023
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
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.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.326
Location
not on view
Description
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.
Bill Owens
American photographer, born 1938