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Published References"Bill Owens: Leisure," fotofolio, 2004, p. 30
DimensionsSheet: 11 x 13 7/8 in. (27.9 x 35.2 cm)
Image: 9 x 11 5/8 in. (22.9 x 29.5 cm)
Accession Number 2024.120
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsBO-1270M (verso l,l graphite) 3200 (verso l,l graphite) Bill Owens (verso l,r graphite) L30 (verso l,r graphite)
Edition2/15
Portfolio/Series"Leisure" series
Marks© BILL OWENS EDITION 15/3AP NUMBER 2 PRINTED 1999 (verso l,r stamp and graphite)
Karate is a highly competitive sport, like tennis or boxing. It’s on one. For $30 a month a kid can get some good mental and physical training. He can learn coordination, balance, timing and self-defense. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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, from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Urges Adoption Of All Out Civil Rights Program: Attired in cap and gown, President Truman calls for swift adoption of an all out Civil Rights program backed up by "the full force and power of the federal government" in his commencement address today at Howard University, a Negro institution. The President said he was "not one of those who feel that we can leave these matters up to the state alone, or that we can rely solely on the efforts of men of good will," Washington D.C., June 13, 1952
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1952
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sleep in Any Language: A combat interpreter with the U.S. Marine unit southwest of Da Nang catches a quick catnap during an all-day sweep through the area. Like many troopers, he has learned to catch his sleep when he can—a quick catnap here and there to keep him going. The operation was conducted against reported North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units but contact was light, November 12, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Marines Get Ready for POW Release: United States Marines string barbed wire near Freedom Gate bridge in Korea to help channelize an estimated 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners of war if they are released as scheduled at 12:01 a.m. January 12. Officers of the United States Eighth Army said they are prepared for “any eventuality” and can handle a disorganized rush southward by the POWs if it materializes. The Neutral Nations Repatriation commission is trying to achieve agreement with the Communists and the United Nations command on what to do with the prison-weary veterans in the Anti-Red camp, January 8, 1954
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Kids aren’t interested in canning or making pickles. It’s hard to keep the class’s attention. Amador High School, Pleasanton, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2000
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Portrait of young woman holding up a tennis racquet
Edward W. Quigley
1937
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I have to keep in shape. It’s hard work being a realtor. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1974, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Everywhere we go we challenge the local high school team to a game. We let them win. It’s all for charity. Points don’t count unless you shoot from the back of the donkey. Donkeys are dumb and uncooperative, and they really hate to move. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I don't feel that Richie playing with guns will have a negative effect on his personality. (He already wants to be a policeman). His childhood gun-playing won't make him into a cop-shooter. By playing with guns he learns to socialize with other children. I find the neighbors who are offended by Richie's gun, either the father hunts or their kids are the first to take Richie's gun and go off and play with it., from the "Suburbia" series
Bill Owens
1971, printed 2000
Image Not Available for Sharon offers resignation: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel resigned as a consequence of his indirect role in the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian phalanges between September 16th to 18th, 1982 as the result of a four months investigation. The 54 year old Defense Minister was the principal architect of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last year, and had been battling for his political survival since the outcome of the enquiry’s report. The last official function of Ariel Sharon on the day the commission report was published, attending in Tel Aviv a meeting of the “Jabotinsky Order” (a portrait on the wall of Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Revisionist Movement and Menahem Begin’s spiritual leader), February 8, 1983
Sharon offers resignation: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel resigned as a consequence of his indirect role in the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian phalanges between September 16th to 18th, 1982 as the result of a four months investigation. The 54 year old Defense Minister was the principal architect of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last year, and had been battling for his political survival since the outcome of the enquiry’s report. The last official function of Ariel Sharon on the day the commission report was published, attending in Tel Aviv a meeting of the “Jabotinsky Order” (a portrait on the wall of Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Revisionist Movement and Menahem Begin’s spiritual leader), February 8, 1983
1983
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I read every chance I get. Janet Owens, 268 Yosemite Drive, Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1971, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I gross over $200,000 a year as the owner-manager of a donut store, but there's a price to pay. I come to work at 2:00 A.M. to begin the daily routine of making 250 dozen donuts. I eat dinner at 4:00 in the afternoon and am in bed by 7:30. I was a Depression baby. Now kids say there has to be something better., from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006