Bill Owens (photographer)

Bill Owens (photographer)

Bill Owens (b. September 25, 1938 in San Jose, California) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976 [http://www.gf.org/76fellow.html] and two NEA Grants, he is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book "Suburbia" in 1973. According to "The New York Sun", "Bill Owens is one of the very few photographers to have shot people in the suburbs to any great extent. There is a long, long list of photographers who made their reputations shooting in cities and a shorter but impressive list who made their names with studies of rural communities, but Mr. Owens is uniquely associated with suburbanites living in the tract housing developments that absorbed 60 million Americans in the decades following World War II."

Bibliography

*1973 "Suburbia" (revised 1999) – ISBN 1881270408
*1975 "Our Kind of People: American Groups and Rituals" – ISBN 0879320842
*1977 "Working: I Do It For the Money" – ISBN 067122820X
*2005 "Leisure" – ISBN 1584180749

External links

* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=31308 J. Paul Getty Museum]
* [http://www.gregkucera.com/owens.htm Greg Kucera Gallery]
* [http://www.jackhanley.com/id54.htm Jack Hanley Gallery]
* [http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/billowens/index.html James Cohan Gallery, Owens' New York Representative]
* [http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/Owens/index.html Robert Koch Gallery]

References

*"The Washington Post": "The American Dream, Circa 1970: "Suburbia" Photographs Capture How Much We've Changed", by Frank Ahrens, March 24, 2000
*"The New York Times": "A Vision of Suburban Bliss Edged With Irony" by Jeffrey Kastner, March 19, 2000
*"Seattle Post-Intelligencer": "Bill Owens' Unrelenting Eye Defines a Generation" - April 9, 1999
*"The New York Sun": "The Shame of the Suburbs", by William Meyers, August 11, 2005


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