Untitled (spray paint), Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"

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Untitled (spray paint), Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Untitled (spray paint), Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1975 (printed later)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (21 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2019.18.87
Not on view
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Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “© BILL OWENS / EXTRA BOOK PRINT”
Published References Illustrated in Bill Owens, Working: I Do It For The Money (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977), pl. 115.
Signature Signed on verso in pencil.
Inscribed Verso, upper left corner (pencil): "0987M"
Verso, lower right (pencil): “1500”
Verso, lower right corner (pencil): “W115*”
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. For…
Untitled (white collar office female), Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1975
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.88
Warehouse, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Warehouse, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.89
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. For…
Lee Hernandez, Female Construction Worker, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.74
Man singing in industrial plant, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Man singing in industrial plant, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.76
Industrial engine, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Industrial engine, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.87
Two men in suits waiting in reception, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Two men in suits waiting in reception, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.86
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. For…
Graphic designer, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.69
The only way to learn anything in photography is by making lots of mistakes. It's a painful education. Photography's a wonderful hobby but a very difficult business. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
The only way to learn anything in photography is by making lots of mistakes. It's a painful education. Photography's a wonderful hobby but a very difficult business. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.94
Making Paper, Paper Mill, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Making Paper, Paper Mill, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.91
Worker with bucket, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Worker with bucket, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.90
Modular Construction, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Modular Construction, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.79
This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.97