Picnic, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

c. 1970
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 15.9 x 21.6 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location: not on view

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Watching television was the most popular American leisure pastime in the 1970s.

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.
Picnic, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Picnic, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

c. 1970

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
America

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