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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
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
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

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

Artist Bill Owens (American, born 1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
SignedSigned in graphite on mount verso
PortfolioWorking
Credit LineGift of Dr. Daveed Frazier
Object number2021.62.91
Not on view
ProvenanceSold to Dr. Daveed Frazier from Michael Mattis, 2015 | Donated to Chrysler Museum of Art from Dr. Daveed Frazeir, 2021
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
Bill Owens
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
1976
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
John Gossage
[Block pad patio with bricks, tennis racket, water can, debris; house in background]
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 (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
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 31: After five months' residence in the land of Cocagne, Pinocchio, to his great astonishment, grows a beautiful pair of donkey's ears, and he becomes a little donkey, tail and all
2006
Image Not Available for Being a broker is the old "buy'em low, sell 'em high game. After the one o'clock bell, brokers have fifteen minutes to close their market orders. This is done by shouting your bids and positioning your hands. Palms out means sell, palms in means buy. I can assure you it's a fun game to win. San Francisco, California
Bill Owens
Being a broker is the old "buy'em low, sell 'em high game. After the one o'clock bell, brokers have fifteen minutes to close their market orders. This is done by shouting your bids and positioning your hands. Palms out means sell, palms in means buy. I can assure you it's a fun game to win. San Francisco, California
1976
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 The hotel clerk, the neighbors, his roommate of three years . . . no one knew a thing about the dead young man in the hotel room—not even his real name, or where he worked. The man lay fallen back on the bed, eyes fixed to the ceiling, a hypodermic needle in his arm. “How did this guy die?” I asked the cop. “Dirty drugs.” I learned later that he had been a police informer
Leonard Freed
The hotel clerk, the neighbors, his roommate of three years . . . no one knew a thing about the dead young man in the hotel room—not even his real name, or where he worked. The man lay fallen back on the bed, eyes fixed to the ceiling, a hypodermic needle in his arm. “How did this guy die?” I asked the cop. “Dirty drugs.” I learned later that he had been a police informer
1976
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
John Tobin
I Think I'm Gonna Croak
1977
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2023.
Bill Owens
Leslie Salt worker harvesting salt. My job is now doomed as cheap salts are coming to America from all over the world. People don't know that most salt isn't used to eat but for the manufacturing of plastics. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1976
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
R.H. Fulghum
Charles B. Hughes At About 18 Months
ca. 1860s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
Lottie Corbett At About 18 Months
1860s
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