Collection Online as of October 3, 2023
Our Kind of People
Kids with Thanksgiving Hats, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
(American, b. 1938)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.4 x 24.1 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.321
Location
not on view
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.
Bill Owens
American photographer, born 1938