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  • Bill Owens: Suburbia at the Center of Photographic Art – LENSCRATCH

    Bill Owens: Suburbia at the Center of Photographic Art - LENSCRATCH

    Bill Owens: Suburbia at the Center of Photographic Art – LENSCRATCH

    It’s a month for nostalgia! Currently on the walls at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel is the 50th anniversary of one of the seminal publications in the history of photography: Bill Owens’ Suburbia. Hailed internationally as the ultimate document of the American Suburban experience, this book and exhibition continue to show us who

    via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/10/bill-owens/

    A limited-edition publication, Bill Owens: The Legacy of Suburbia Photographs 1964-2022 is available with a special edition print included. This book features images from Bill Owens’ entire career from his work in Jamaica with the Peace Corp to his current Digital Renaissance. The book is available in an edition of 100. The book can be bought at gallery in Carmel or ordered through True North Editions.

  • 50 Years After Altamont: The End of the 1960s – The New York Times

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    50 Years After Altamont: The End of the 1960s – The New York Times

    The concert was featured in the documentary film “Gimme Shelter,” and a few photojournalists captured the experience. Among them was Bill Owens, who would soon rise to photographic fame for his seminal early 1970s project “Suburbia,” which cheekily documented the rise of the suburbs in California.

  • The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter | The New Yorker

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    The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter | The New Yorker

    In December, 1969, the photographer Bill Owens got a call from his friend Beth Bagby, who occasionally shot photos for the Associated Press. As Owens explains in his new photo book, “Bill Owens: Altamont 1969,” the A.P. wanted to hire him for a day “to cover a rock and roll concert in the Altamont hills.” The Altamont Speedway concert had been reported as the West Coast’s response to Woodstock. It was also part of a return to public view for the Rolling Stones, who had started touring again, after nearly two years off the road. Their efforts began in July, with a free show in London’s Hyde Park. The concert was a success, an entirely peaceful event financed and filmed by Granada Television. Security had been provided by a ragtag group of people wearing leather, who the Stones mistakenly believed were part of the Hells Angels. Emboldened, the Stones hired the man who organized the Hyde Park concert, Sam Cutler, to work on an American tour in the fall of 1969.

  • INTERVIEW: “Robert Hirsch with Bill Owens – Photographing the Suburban Soul” (2005)


    Link: AMERICAN SUBURB X

    RH: What about Photoshop? BO: Photoshop is not in my vocabulary. I don’t need it because I have content. You need Photoshop when you’ve screwed it up.

  • BILL OWENS: "Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness" (2005)

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    Bill Owens made these photographs, and many others, in various suburban communities in Northern California throughout the early 1970s. In 1973 they were compiled in the classic book, Suburbia. These photographs are as strange and compelling now as they were thirty years ago.

    Link: BILL OWENS: “Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness” (2005)

  • BILL OWENS: "Bill Owens" (2000)

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    The USA is often misdescribed as a classless society but Owens, the insider, clearly and categorically states that the subject of his interest was the middle class. The estate in the Livermore Valley was the USA in microcosm. It’s inhabitants had indeed never had it so good and were keen to enjoy, and to some extent show off their new found wealth; but Owens’ depiction of his contemporaries is far from fawning. On occasion it exhibits an almost surgical precision in its dissection of the minutiae of the late sixties American soul.

    Link: BILL OWENS: “Bill Owens” (2000)

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: Bill Owens – "Suburbia" (2000)

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    In 1972, while a news photographer for the Livermore Independent, Bill Owens made the photographs that comprise Suburbia. Initially presented in a 1973 volume entitled, Suburbia, they have since been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and North America and become the classic photographic description of the American suburban dream.

    Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: Bill Owens – “Suburbia” (2000)

  • Bill Owens, the distiller, published a book of art photography once…


    AFTER STAFF – Bill Owens, the distiller, published a book of art photography once… | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog    :

    I usually say, “Man, leave the Eskimos alone; leave the American Indians alone — they’ve been photographed enough.” Photograph what’s right in front of your face.

  • Bill Owens – Part 1 « Altamont Apparel


    Bill Owens – Part 1 « Altamont Apparel
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  • NoTxt #2

    Issue #2 now online, featuring: Legendary photographer Bill Owens, Disposable Hero, Michelle Caplan, Keith Johnson, Josh Cochran, Jason Olson, Mario Ruiz, Olive47, Andrew Faulkner, and Seizer (photos by Nicholas Miramontes). Here.