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Title
Sharon Risley, portrait
Creator
Cancian, Frank (American, 1934-2020)
Date Created and/or Issued
2000
Contributing Institution
UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection
Frank Cancian photographs of Lacedonia, Orange County housecleaners, and Zinacantan
Rights Information
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description
Scope/Content: Sharon Risley earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990--twenty-six years after a teenage pregnancy destroyed her plans to go from high school to art school. Her steady work as a housecleaner began in the late 1980s, after her marrriage broke up.
Form/Genre
Image
black-and-white photograph
Original: black-and-white film
black-and-white photography
documentary photography
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8tr80
4186
ARTstor Record ID: 0288747
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/10910
Subject
household employees
domestics
housecleaner
Risley, Sharon
American culture
Time Period
21st century
Place
Orange County (Calif.)
Source
Orange County housecleaners
Provenance
Frank Cancian scans from prints of negatives (2000); Frank Cancian, Orange County House Cleaners (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), page VII

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