Artist
Bill Owens(American, born 1938)American, born 1938
CultureAmerican
Titles
- 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
Not on view
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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]
Stamped in black ink, verso, bottom right: © BILL OWENS // EDITION 15/3AP // NUMBER 12 [in pencil] // PRINTED 2006 [in pencil]
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