Bill owens photography biography
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Bill owens photography biography
Bill Owens (photographer)
American journalist
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| Born | (1938-09-25) September 25, 1938 (age 86) San Jose, California, U.S. |
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For other persons named Bill Owens, see William Owens (disambiguation).
Bill Owens (born September 25, 1938) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California.
He is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book Suburbia (1973).[1] Owens is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Grants.
According to The New York Sun, "Owens is uniquely associated with suburbanites living in the tract housing developments that absorbed 60 million Americans in the decades following World War II."[2]
Biography
Owens was born in San Jose, California and raised on a farm in