Bill Owens
McDonald's Modern Day Care Center

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Artist Bill Owens(American, born 1938)American, born 1938

CultureAmerican

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McDonald's Modern Day Care Center

Date1976, printed 2006

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (23.5 × 29.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nina and Michael Zilkha

Object number2020.73

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Description“McDonald’s modern day care center keeps the boys out of my hair and
lets me have a moment to myself,” reads this picture’s caption in Bill Owens’s
2004 book Leisure. With a knack for finding profoundly strange incidents
in the everyday life, Owens applied his biting humor and sharp social critique
to the prevailing style of documentary photography in the 1970s. “Turn me
loose on the middle class,” he once declared. “I understand the culture. I
speak the language. Let me exploit them!”
Provenance[Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas]; [Heritage Auction Galleries, March 11, 2020, Photographs Monthly Online Auction #14153]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil, verso, lower right: Bill Owens
Stamped in black ink, verso, bottom right: © BILL OWENS // EDITION 15/3AP // NUMBER 12 [in pencil] // PRINTED 2006 [in pencil]

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