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Image Not Available for I’m a supervisor for a drayage company and tonight we're moving an oil-derrick platform. It's 116 feet long and weighs 186 tons. It will take us three hours to go six miles. I don't think I could work sitting at a desk. My next job will be moving oil-refinery equipment to Saudi Arabia. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
I’m a supervisor for a drayage company and tonight we're moving an oil-derrick platform. It's 116 feet long and weighs 186 tons. It will take us three hours to go six miles. I don't think I could work sitting at a desk. My next job will be moving oil-refinery equipment to Saudi Arabia. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Image Not Available for I’m a supervisor for a drayage company and tonight we're moving an oil-derrick platform. It's 116 feet long and weighs 186 tons. It will take us three hours to go six miles. I don't think I could work sitting at a desk. My next job will be moving oil-refinery equipment to Saudi Arabia. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

I’m a supervisor for a drayage company and tonight we're moving an oil-derrick platform. It's 116 feet long and weighs 186 tons. It will take us three hours to go six miles. I don't think I could work sitting at a desk. My next job will be moving oil-refinery equipment to Saudi Arabia. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Artist Bill Owens (American, born 1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
SignedSigned in graphite on verso
PortfolioWorking
Credit LineGifts of Susan and Neal Yanofsky
Object number2021.51.10
Not on view
ProvenanceSusan and Neal Yanofsky | Chrysler Museum of ArtPublished ReferencesIllustrated: Bill Owens: Working [I Do It For The Money], Simon and Schuster, 1977, pl. 52
Image Not Available for Like every body else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon but we can only deliver half a moon. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
Like every body else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon but we can only deliver half a moon. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1975
Image Not Available for I can take six months or more of on-the-job training to become a microelectronics assembly technician. Only young people can do this work as your eyes don't last. The circuit I'm working on is part of a guidance system for military aircraft. I ride horses an play tennis to relieve the tension
Bill Owens
I can take six months or more of on-the-job training to become a microelectronics assembly technician. Only young people can do this work as your eyes don't last. The circuit I'm working on is part of a guidance system for military aircraft. I ride horses an play tennis to relieve the tension
1976
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
John Tobin
I Think I'm Gonna Croak
1977
Image Not Available for I’m a train conductor. I love railroading, it's exciting. Each trip is different and I never know where I'm going. My dad and his brothers my wife, her dad and her brothers were all railroaders. It runs in the family
Bill Owens
I’m a train conductor. I love railroading, it's exciting. Each trip is different and I never know where I'm going. My dad and his brothers my wife, her dad and her brothers were all railroaders. It runs in the family
1975, printed 2006
Image Not Available for Blackwell at his camera during the eclipse while the sun was more than 9/10th's covered by the moon. Blackwell spent five weeks in Arabia preparing for these vital three minutes during which time he took 3,000 pictures with a high speed 35 mm camera. His camera was synchronised with chronometers and also with time signals radioed from Rugby, so that the time of each exposure could be recorded to the fraction of a second
George Rodger
Blackwell at his camera during the eclipse while the sun was more than 9/10th's covered by the moon. Blackwell spent five weeks in Arabia preparing for these vital three minutes during which time he took 3,000 pictures with a high speed 35 mm camera. His camera was synchronised with chronometers and also with time signals radioed from Rugby, so that the time of each exposure could be recorded to the fraction of a second
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Paul Strand
Oil Refinery, Terma, Ghana, From Portfolio 3
1951
Image Not Available for (Skeet Shooters) My son Marc is the only serious black junior shooter in the Pacific International Trapshooting Association. I think trapshooting is a socially healthy sport, and if Marc becomes the best in his class, it would be good publicity fo the P.I.T.A. and for black people in gerneral. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
(Skeet Shooters) My son Marc is the only serious black junior shooter in the Pacific International Trapshooting Association. I think trapshooting is a socially healthy sport, and if Marc becomes the best in his class, it would be good publicity fo the P.I.T.A. and for black people in gerneral. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1969-1975
The Family Of Russell Tombs Moving Out Of Their Home Which Is In The Area Taken Over By The Army
Jack Delano
The Family Of Russell Tombs Moving Out Of Their Home Which Is In The Area Taken Over By The Army
June 1941
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
Arthur Rothstein
Moving into New Home, Newport News Homesteads, Virginia
1937, printed ca. 1984
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
Arthur Rothstein
Moving into Newport News Homesteads, Virginia
1937
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Harold Edgerton
Moving Skip Rope
1952
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2005.
O. Winston Link
A Y6 Moving Merchandise Freight West, at Montgomery Tunnel, Montgomery, VA
1955
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