Bill Owens
Visual Artist
1938 –
Who is Bill Owens?
Bill Owens is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976 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."
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- Born
- Sep 25, 1938
San Jose - Also known as
- Bill. Owens
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- San Francisco State University
- Lived in
- Hayward
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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