The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Beach, Northern California

Beach, Northern California

1972
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 23.9 x 16.3 cm (9 7/16 x 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Watching television was the most popular American leisure pastime in the 1970s.

Description

Bill Owens began photographing while taking a visual anthropology course in college. He continued his systematic observation of human behavior and social structures as a staff photographer for a local newspaper and in personal photographic projects shot on the weekends. Leisure was the fourth such project, begun in the 1970s but not published in book form until 2004.
  • ?-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/2020.329