Tag: Bill Owens

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

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

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

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

    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 A reluctant rock concert attendee, Bill Owens nevertheless photographed the disastrous 1969 music festival Altamont and the close of an era. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/lens/altamont-1969-bill-owens.html The concert was featured in the documentary film “Gimme Shelter,” and a few photojournalists captured the experience. Among them was Bill Owens, who…

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

    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 A lot has been written about the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont, where dozens of people were beaten and a black teen was killed, but so much of the language around it has been passive, exonerating. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-chaos-of-altamont-and-the-murder-of-meredith-hunter In December, 1969,…

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

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

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    Interview with Bill Owens on Photographing the Suburban Soul (2005)  “I enjoy cooking, dogs, cats, kids, soccer, and living here.” “No one would have predicted I would succeed at anything.” Interview by Robert Hirsch of Light Research Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1972) is a quintessential photographic study of suburb via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/04/theory-interview-bill-owens.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28ASX+%7C+AMERICAN+SUBURB+X+%7C+Photography+%26+Culture%29 RH: What…

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

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

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    BILL OWENS: “Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness” (2005) From the Working series By Gregory Crewdson A family of three carefully unfolds rolls of sod onto their barren front yard transforming it into a small domestic oasis. A man ascends a bare, undersized tree in an absurd attempt to prune its dead leave via…

  • 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…

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

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

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    Bill Owens – ‘Suburbia’ (2000) “The photographs for Suburbia weren’t done by accident. I put together a shooting script of events that I wanted to photograph… Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Birthdays, et cetera.” By Cynthia Morrill, Ph.D. In 1972, while a news photog via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/01/theory-bill-owens-suburbia-2000.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29 In 1972, while a news photographer…

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

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    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

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    Bill Owens – Part 1 « Altamont Apparelvia Jason Campbell

  • NoTxt #2

    NoTxt #2

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    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.