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Bill Owens
'Our house is built with the living room in the back, so in the evening we sit out front of the garage and watch the traffic go by'1970-1971, printed 1982

Not on view
Black and white photograph of two adults seated in folding chairs and a child on roller skates posed in front of an open, cluttered two-car garage
Artist or Maker
Bill Owens
United States, born 1938
Title
'Our house is built with the living room in the back, so in the evening we sit out front of the garage and watch the traffic go by'
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1970-1971, printed 1982
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/16 × 10 9/16 in. (20.48 × 26.8 cm) Primary support: 10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.78 × 35.4 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift, Los Angeles, in honor of Robert Sobieszek
Accession Number
M.2005.150.92
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.