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Series Title: Working

The tax system is for the rich. As a CPA you have to be careful. If I give bad advice, I'm liable. The government should provide information that the average person can understand. Most people just can't read the forms. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

1975

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 16.7 x 20.8 cm (6 9/16 x 8 3/16 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.300
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

There was a serious decline in job satisfaction in America in the last half of the 1970s.

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.

The tax system is for the rich. As a CPA you have to be careful. If I give bad advice, I'm liable. The government should provide information that the average person can understand. Most people just can't read the forms. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

1975

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
America

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