The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

I've been a UPI correspondent, a publicist for an Italian film producer, a writer for the U.S. Army, a public relations man and an operations manager for records stores. Now I'm a promotion and marketing director for a newspaper chain. Within a year, I'll be off to Turkey. It will be a jumping off place. The world will be my oyster. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

I've been a UPI correspondent, a publicist for an Italian film producer, a writer for the U.S. Army, a public relations man and an operations manager for records stores. Now I'm a promotion and marketing director for a newspaper chain. Within a year, I'll be off to Turkey. It will be a jumping off place. The world will be my oyster. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

1975
(American, b. 1938)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 21.3 x 16.5 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.323
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.
  • ?-2020
    George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY
    December 7, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.323