Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

c. 1970, printed 2005
https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.309

This quintessential image from Owens’s series Leisure addresses the deflation of the American Dream in the early 1970s America. The artist’s photographs convey both the smug comfort of suburban middle-class affluence and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment.

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