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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
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
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

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

Artist Bill Owens (American, born 1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1975
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
SignedSigned in graphite and annotated "W-689" in ink on verso
PortfolioWorking
Credit LineGift of Dr. Daveed Frazier
Object number2021.62.96
Not on view
ProvenanceSold to Dr. Daveed Frazier from Michael Mattis, 2015 | Donated to Chrysler Museum of Art from Dr. Daveed Frazeir, 2021Published ReferencesIllustrated: Bill Owens: Working, fotofolio, 2008, p. 11 variant; Bill Owens: Working [I Do It For The Money], Simon and Schuster, 1977, pl. 7
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, Sony a7R II 2023.
Bill Owens
My dad always had a smile on his face so we named the company "Kruger & Sons, Home of the Happy Pickle." We are the most efficient pickle-packing plant on the West Coast, processing eight to ten million pounds of cucumbers each year. I started sorting pickles when I was ten years old. Dad would bring them home from work. 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
Image Not Available for The summer review "Broadway's Best" was held at the ampitheater. Learning my dance routine, getting my costume ready, and learning my sons was a lot of work. It's too bad the community didn't support our efforts. Attendance was poor. I guess people have other things to do, but we still had a great time putting on the performance. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
The summer review "Broadway's Best" was held at the ampitheater. Learning my dance routine, getting my costume ready, and learning my sons was a lot of work. It's too bad the community didn't support our efforts. Attendance was poor. I guess people have other things to do, but we still had a great time putting on the performance. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1969-1975
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
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
Image Not Available for Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”
Leonard Freed
Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”
1976
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
John Tobin
I Think I'm Gonna Croak
1977
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Gibbs, Gardner, and Company; American Anti-Slavery Society
"Am I Not A Woman & A Sister" Anti-Slavery Hard Times Token
1838
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Ernest C. Withers
I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee
March 28th, 1968
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.
H.C. White Co.
5229 Guess who I am, Mama
1904
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
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