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Apr 30, 2021
Apr 30, 2021
Christmas Felt Board Crafts (Sunday School), Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Our Kind of People
Christmas Felt Board Crafts (Sunday School), Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1969–75
Bill Owens
(American, b. 1938)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.4 x 15.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.319
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Visiting the United States in the 1830s, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans “were forever forming associations.”
Description
Owens’ 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.
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