Bill Owens Art
American, b. 1938
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 1960s, 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 American Brewer magazine.
The photographs of Bill Owens are highly sought after and can be found in private and public collections such as the Getty Museum, Modern Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
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Dealer: PDNB Gallery
When school is out we sunbathe all day and dance all night
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"When school is out we sunbathe all day and dance all night."
Edition of 15
Signed, dated, and numbered on print verso by Bill Owens
Gelatin silver p...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Every summer we go all out on our camp in Yosemite, from Leisure
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"Every summer we go all out on our camp in Yosemite. I do the barbequing"
Edition of 15
Signed, dated, and numbered by Bill Owens
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in.
Series: Leisure
Bi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Christina's Room
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"I wanted Christina to learn some responsibility for cleaning her room, but it didn't work."
Edition of 15
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in.
Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil wi...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Do Coke, Los Angeles, CA
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"After work we change clothes, redo our makeup, do some coke and go dancing."
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in black ink on print verso.
Bill Owens was born and raised...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
C Print
Bill Owens: Suburbia Portfolio (15 photographs)
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Bill Owens Portfolio
A selection of fifteen photographs from the series, Suburbia
Edition of 15
Each photograph is signed and numbered in pencil with artist stamp in black ink on pri...
Category
1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Its a great pleasure to watch yourself make love
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Its a great pleasure to watch yourself make love, 1971
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in.
Signed, artist stamp, and numbered.
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volu...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
We like to play war, from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
We like to play war, 1971
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in.
Edition of 15
Stamped in ink, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil on verso by Bill Owens
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens wa...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
We don't have to conform, from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 10
Signed on print verso by Bill Owens
Paper size: 16 x 19 1/2 in. Image size: 15 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After v...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
C Print
We're not doing too badly, CA, from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in black ink on print verso.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up phot...
Category
1980s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Color
Untitled (Overview of cul-de-sac)
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, print date, misc. notation in pencil on verso.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography ...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
We're Really Happy, from Suburbia series
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food, and we have a really nice home."
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in.
Signed, print date, misc. notation in pencil on vers...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kens SC, CA, from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 10
Signed, numbered, and print date.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and beg...
Category
1980s Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
C Print
We really enjoy getting together, from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"We really enjoy getting together with our friends to drink and dance. It's a wild party and we're having a great time." from series, Suburbia
Edition of 15
Signed, dated and number...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
At Rosie O' Grady's Goodtime Emporium (Disco dancer)
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, dated, numbered and artist stamp on print verso by Bill Owens
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in.
Printed 2005
Series: Leisure
Bill Owens was born and raised in ...
Category
1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
McDonald's Modern Day Care Center, from Leisure series
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"McDonald's modern day care center keeps the boys out of my hair and lets me have a moment to myself. Kansas City, MO", 1976
Edition 7/15
Signed and artist stamps.
Printed 2007
Serie...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New Suburbia, Hayward (Weed Wacker), from New Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink on print verso.
Series: New Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he pi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Woman Vacuuming), from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, dated and numbered.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and began his...
Category
1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Prada, Manhattan, New Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Signed, titled, and numbered.
Series: New Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and bega...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Parade Woman Holding American Flag, from Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, dated and numbered.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and began his...
Category
1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
I bought the lawn
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"I bought the lawn in six-foot rolls. It's easy to handle. I prepare the ground and my wife and son helped roll out the grass. in one day you have a front yard."
Edition of 15
Signed...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
My dad thinks it's a good idea
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the tree and take up the yard. I think he is crazy."
Edition of 15
Signed, numbered, and artist stamp.
Series: Suburbia
Bi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunday Afternoon, from Suburbia series
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
"Sunday afternoon we get it together. I cook the steaks and my wife makes the salad."
Edition of 15
Signed, numbered, and artist stamp.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and rais...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Suburbia series
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Artist Proof
Signed and numbered in pencil with artist copyright stamp in black ink on print verso.
Series: Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New Suburbia, Hayward (Two Balls)
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, titled and numbered.
Series: New Suburbia, Hayward
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
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