"I was a lawyer before I became a private detective. This is a more interesting way to make a living. I've been in business for more than twenty years now and have worked on just about every case imaginable," from the series Working (I Do It For The Money)

1975

photograph | gelatin silver print

Not currently on view in the museum

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8 7/16 in. x 6 in. (21.43 cm x 15.24 cm)

Acquired 2001

Collection SFMOMA

Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

2001.514

Keywords

men, briefcases, lawyers, attorneys, private detectives, occupations, labor, working

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