Kiss me. Kiss me. Livermore, California
Bill Owens
American, born 1938
Details
Title
Kiss me. Kiss me. Livermore, California
Artist/Maker
Bill Owens (American, born 1938)
Date
1974, printed later
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Dr. Roger Hartl
Accession #
2022.272
On View
Currently not on view
Image Copyright
© Bill Owens
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A plant serviceman, cleans, trims, prunes, waters and exchanges rented plants. I’m dusting a fiddle-leaf fig plant at the Trans-America building observation floor. I’m totally content with what I’m doing now.
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My husband’s job allows a lot of vacation time. This allows us to go to the lake. Livermore, California
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Part of my job as a waiter is to be a zoo-runner. We carry the huge dish of ice cream around the tables while other waiters beat a drum. Then we deliver the ice-cream zoo to the table having the party, Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
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America is the best country in the world. In Azores we’d go to the movies and America would seem like a dream. We came here with fifty dollars in our pocket and worked twelve hours a day, six days a week to save money to buy this dry-cleaning business. America is better than we thought. We have everything we ever wanted
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My goal at the end of the race is to beat at least one ten-year-old kid or one little old lady. 10K race, Livermore, California
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I used to be a chef and my partner was a garbage foreman. He was making $107 a week and going crazy. Now we sell apples and oranges from the back of a pickup truck. You meet people of every race–rich and poor, doctors and dentists. Everyone loves good fruit. We’re making a living and enjoying ourselves.
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