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Bill Owens: Suburbia Revisited |
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Workshop history
Reworking
themes that have a renewed contemporary edge - but working with a master of
techniques whose eye is guided by the tools he uses to materialise his vision.
Unlike many contemporary practitioners Bill remains true to the core values of
Photography.
The workshop will be based around how to create a documentary project,
researching, shooting and reshooting to get it right!
A chance to work with an artist who, while pointing his camera with
razor edge precision at his subjects, somehow manages to respect those subjects
and reflect his own humanity in the pictures. Maybe there's a secret?
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About
Bill Owens
Extensive Website at www.billowens.com,
here's some abstracts....
Says Bill about his aspirations:
"My
goal is to finish a documentary photo project conceived of some 20 years ago. In
the 1970s, I published three photography books on the middle class in suburban
California and began a fourth project on leisure. But in the early 1980s, I had
to make a career choice between photography and supporting my kids. I left
photography to turn my hobby as a brewer into a career. I founded and ran a
brewpub for 14 years. With the recent reprinting of Suburbia and the renewed
interest in my work, I would like to finish my project on leisure. This project,
like Suburbia, will consist of photographs of friends, neighbors and the
community I live in."
Biography
- Born 9/25/38,
San Jose, Calif.; raised on a farm in Citrus Heights, Calif.
- 1963: B.A.,
Industrial Arts, Chico State College
- 1964-66: Peace
Corps, served in Jamaica as a school teacher
- 1968-78: News
photographer, Livermore Independent, Livermore, Calif.
- 1972-77:
Published Suburbia, Our Kind of People, and Working
- 1976: Guggenheim
fellowship
- 1977-79: Two NEA
grants
- 1982-96: Founded
and operated Buffalo Bill's Brewery, Hayward, Calif.
- 1986-present:
Publisher of American Brewer Magazine
- 1999: Suburbia
republished; working on Leisure, Americans at Play
Partial list of
Suburbia exhibits, 1997-2000:
- Greg
Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Matthew Marks
Gallery, New York City, N.Y.
- Howard Greenberg
Gallery, New York City, N.Y.
- Stephen Bugler
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Galerie
Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
- Robert Koch
Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
- San
Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif.
- San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif.
Collections:
- Center for
Creative Photography, New York, N.Y.
- National Museum
of American Art Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
- San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif.
- Los Angeles
County Art Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Berkeley Art
Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
- Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris, France
- Museum of Modern
Art, Stockholm, Sweden
- Oakland Museum,
Oakland, Calif.
- San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, Calif.
- Numerous private
collectors
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moved up to a nicer house. We thought we'd do better, but the real
estate man got us. Closing costs were supposed to be $295 but they
turned out to be $750. They have you where they want you--you've
already moved into the house.
(c) Bill
Owens
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The following is a list of articles about Bill Owens, Photographer. If you find a broken link or other
articles we should list here, please email the title and URL to photographers@duckspool.com
Great biography at Virtual Gallery - see the review (top right!)
"Suburbia
Revisited" -- Judith Coburn
"The
Royal Photographic Society Journal" Article: Bill Owens -- Simon
James
Art
a GoGo Interview: Bill Owens -- Photographer, Brew Master, Publisher: Bill Owens
Comes Full Circle
Salon:
Growing up suburban -- Laura Miller
Nobody’s
Gonna Pay You to Be a Poet -- Nancy Spiller
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