The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
The Republican National Convention at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City was my first political convention as a CBS correspondent. I was thinking only one thing: don't blow it! So I was a little impatient up there on the film box waiting for the cue, and a little worried. My ambition was to be a political reporter, so I felt like Seabiscuit before his first big race. So much was riding on that day. Girls do get floor passes even if they wear glasses (Leslie Stahl)
1976
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 15.8 x 23.2 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.295
Location: Not on view
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.- ?-2019George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NYDecember 2, 2019The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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