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Bill Owens
Typical Californian, from Suburbia by Bill Owens, 1971, C-Print, Photography
1971

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"He's a typical Californian who doesn't know how to relax." Typical Californian by Bill Owens depicts a couple having a candle lit dinner on a patio table in their drained backyard pool. Both figures are drinking from glasses. The woman glances over at the man, adding tension to this absurd scene. A black dog sits above them on the ground, waiting for them to leave the pool. Typical Californian is a 16 x 20 inch C-Print, available in an edition of 10. This photograph is signed and numbered in black ink on verso by Bill Owens. This image is part of Owen's series, Suburbia. Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and began his journey as a documentarian. While living in Livermore, California in the late 60’s, he worked as a photographer for the local newspaper. He became increasingly interested in the suburban areas that became heavily populated after WWII. Owens started photographing middle-class America and would eventually publish a best selling book, Suburbia in 1972. Suburbia is considered one of the most important photography books to date. He went on to publish three more books, Our Kind of People, Working, and Leisure, focusing on the suburbanites of America. Owens was the recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship, which he received in 1976. Between working commercially and on personal photographic projects, he opened a brewery in California in 1983 and became so enamored with craft beer that he founded the American Distilling Institute and the American Brewer Magazine. The photographs of Bill Owens are highly sought after and can be found in private and public collections as the Getty Museum, Modern Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Creator:
Bill Owens (1938, American)
Creation Year:
1971
Dimensions:
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
Medium:
C Print
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: 76251stDibs: G131101215227

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