This is our second Fourth of July Block party. This year thirty-three families came for beer, barbequed chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, green salad, macaroni salad and watermelon. After eating and drinking we staged our parade and fireworks.

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This is our second Fourth of July Block party. This year thirty-three families came for beer, barbequed chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, green salad, macaroni salad and watermelon. After eating and drinking we staged our parade and fireworks.

Artist Bill Owens (American, born 1938)

Date1972 (book released in 1973)

Dimensions11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

MediumGelatin silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

2018.62

Not on View

Published ReferencesOwens, Bill, Suburbia: Bill Owens, New York, Fotofolio, 1999, p. 70. Greg Kucera Gallery, Bill Owens: Photographs from 'Suburbia', Working and Our Kind of People, Seattle, Washington, Greg Kucera Gallery, inc., (repr.), www.gregkucera.com/owens.htm .Exhibition HistoryTokyo, Japan, Showa; Estonia, Open Air Gallery; Columbia, Missouri, Columbia Gallery of Photography' Madrid, Spain, Suburbia La Photo Galeria, Suburbia, 1977.

Birmingham, Michigan, The Halstead 831 Gallery, Suburbia, 1978.

University of New Mexico; Los Angeles, Cameravision; Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Shadai Gallery; Tallinn, Astonia, Gallery kiek inb de KoK; Buenos Aires and La Plata, Argentina, Album Gallery in San Paulo and Buenos Aires; Sydney, Australia, Compendium Bookstore, Suburbia, 1982-1983.

San Francisco, CA, Robert Koch Gallery, Domestic Artifacts, 1999.

New York, Howard Greenberg Gallery, Suburban Folk Tales, 1999.

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Pure Products of America: Photographs 1968-1978, May 22-July 16, 1999.

New York, NY, Whitney Museum of Art, America is Hard to See: 1925-1960, May 1-September 27, 2015.