Bill Owens Signed 1974 Suburbia Middle Class Silicon Valley San Francisco Suburb

Description: Trade PB. 4to. Straight Arrow Press, San Francisco, CA. 1974. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by Bill Owens in 1981 on the half-title page. Third Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Suburbia was one of the most popular and successful American photobooks of the 1970s. Bill Owens photographed his neighborhood in a California town, letting the photographed characters do the talking. In fact, he reported in the form of captions the short sentences uttered by his subjects, who managed to express a lot in just a few words: ''We are very happy. Our children are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really welcoming home." Born as a personal project carried out while Owens was working for a local Californian newspaper and taking a course in visual anthropology, this photobook perfectly demonstrates that text and images work much better for sociological documentaries than images alone. Bill Owens Signed 1974 Suburbia Middle Class Silicon Valley San Francisco Suburb Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is Suburbia by Bill Owens Trade PB. 4to. Straight Arrow Press, San Francisco, CA. 1974. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by Bill Owens in 1981 on the half-title page. Third Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Suburbia was one of the most popular and successful American photobooks of the 1970s. Bill Owens photographed his neighborhood in a California town, letting the photographed characters do the talking. In fact, he reported in the form of captions the short sentences uttered by his subjects, who managed to express a lot in just a few words: ''We are very happy. Our children are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really welcoming home." Born as a personal project carried out while Owens was working for a local Californian newspaper and taking a course in visual anthropology, this photobook perfectly demonstrates that text and images work much better for sociological documentaries than images alone. Summary:"This book is about my friends and the world I live in. In the fall of 1968 I began working as a photographer for the Livermore (California) Independent. My daily routine took me into the homes of hundreds of families and into contact with the social life of three suburban communities. The people I met enjoy the life-style of the suburbs. They have realized the American Dream. They are proud to be home own and to have achieved material success. To me nothing seemed familiar, yet everything was very, very familiar. At first I suffered from culture shock. I wanted to photograph everything, thousands of photographs. Then slowly I began to put my thoughts and feelings together and to document Americans in Suburbia. It took two years. The photos in this book express the lives of the people I know. The comments on each photograph are what the people feel about themselves." FROM WIKIPEDIA: 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." Owens was born in San Jose, California. In 1973, he released the photographic book Suburbia, whose pictures showed American suburban life in the town of Livermore, where he lived at the time. The Los Angeles Times commented that the book “rouses pity, contempt, laughter and self-recognition. Owens’s influence was immense during the 1970s especially in respect to the kind of portraiture that shows the middle class.” 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, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Art and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Owens is a contemporary of photographers Mary Ellen Mark, William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore and Lee Friedlander. Owens founded Buffalo Bill's Brewery in Hayward in 1983, one of the first brewpubs to open in California since prohibition. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service, accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling. Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon! 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