Bill Owens Art
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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1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
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1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
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1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
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1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
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1970s Modern Bill Owens Art
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1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
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1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
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1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
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1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
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1970s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bill Owens Art
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1970s Post-Modern Bill Owens Art
Silver Gelatin
Early 2000s Contemporary Bill Owens Art
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