Bill Owens (b. 1938)     

Primadonna Casino, Reno, NV, 1973 (per book)

From the “Leisure” series        

Inkjet print, printed c. 2014      

Signed, titled, inscribed & numbered 1/60 in pencil on verso             

Image size: 7 x 9 inches

Paper size: 8 1/2 x 11 inches

Mat size: 11 x 14 inches

Illustrated: Bill Owens: Photographs, Damiani, Bologna, Italy, 2007, p. 120

Condition: Excellent, upper left corner slightly bumped, not affecting the image    

Provenance: The Artist, 2014

Retail: $1500

 

BIO:

Bill Owens (born September 25, 1938) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976 and two NEA Grants, he is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book Suburbia in 1973. According to The New York Sun, "Bill Owens is one of the very few photographers to have shot people in the suburbs to any great extent. There is a long, long list of photographers who made their reputations shooting in cities and a shorter but impressive list who made their names with studies of rural communities, but Mr. Owens is uniquely associated with suburbanites living in the tract housing developments that absorbed 60 million Americans in the decades following World War II."

In 2001, Suburbia was included in Andrew Roth’s The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century.

He has published other photographic books, and his photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in many collections including The Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

 

Collections:

Getty Museum

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Center for Creative Photography

National Museum of American Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Los Angeles County Art Museum

Berkeley Art Museum

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm

Oakland Museum

San Jose Museum

St Louis Art Museum

The Minneapolis Institute of Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Harvard University

Smithsonian Museum of American Art

Caisse des depots et consignations, Paris

Fonds National D’Art Contemporain, Paris

Fonds Regional des Pays de la Loire, France

Fonds Regional de Languedoc-Rousillion, France

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

 

Monographs:

Suburbia. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972

Our Kind of People. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1975

Working: I Do It For The Money; Simon and Schuster, 1977

Documentary Photography, a personal view by Bill Owens: Addison House, 1978

Publish Your Own Photo Book. Livermore, California, 1979

Suburbia, fotofolio, NY, 1999

Leisure, fotofolio, NY, 2004

Bill Owens Photographs, Damiani, Bologna, 2007

Working, fotofolio, NY, 2008

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