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Bill Owens | 
 enlarge | Author: A.m. Homes
Creators: Bill Owens, Claudia Zanfi
Publisher: Damiani
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Sales Rank: 609927
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 12 x 10.2 x 1
ISBN: 8862080174
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9788862080170
ASIN: 8862080174
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
A black-and-white photograph captures a woman, curlers in her hair and a baby in her arms, standing in a messy kitchen and saying, "How can I worry about the damned dishes when there are children dying in Vietnam?" California photographer Bill Owens is best known for his critically acclaimed series Suburbia, which was published as a monograph in 1972, and has long been considered one of the classic photo books of the era. For this influential and evocative project, Owens simply shot friends and acquaintances in his Livermore, California, neighborhood and allowed them to speak for themselves. Ordinary people had rarely been so riveting.
A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam. Owens has always remained intrigued by America as a subject: there follows a series of images focusing on urban America, its endless grids and homogeneous cities. In his most recent photos, many of which are in color and previously unpublished, Owens reveals how suburbia has evolved in the last 40 years--from the friendly place he captured in the 1970s to one characterized by sprawl and anonymity.
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