in 1968. (Courtesy of PDNB Gallery, Dallas)(Bill Owens) “As a photographer, most of the time you want to be invisible,” he said during a recent interview with PDNB director Burt Finger.

Bill Owens was born in San Jose, California, in 1938, and has been working as a photographer since 1969. In 1977, he received a National Endowment for the Arts award. His work has since been included ...

Bill Owens Bill Owens spent the late 1960s and early ’70s as a photographer for the Livermore Independent News, a thrice-weekly newspaper serving towns and communities east of San Francisco Bay ...

More than 40 images of middle-class life in the 1970s fill "Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks," a new ... suburbs when he wasn't working as a newspaper photographer, trained his lens on what he called ...

Bill Owens’ first book, Suburbia, published in 1973, was an instant success and later gained recognition as one the most influential photography books of the twentieth century. Bill’s peculiar ...

Photographs by Bill Owens Text by Jonathan Blaustein A half ... In December 1969, he was working as a photographer for The Independent, a newspaper in nearby Livermore, Calif., ...

In December, 1969, the photographer Bill Owens got a call from his friend Beth Bagby, who occasionally shot photos for the Associated Press. As Owens explains in his new photo book, “Bill Owens ...

After graduating from California State University at Chico in 1963, Bill Owens began to pursue photography while serving in the Peace Corps. In 1968, he landed a job as a newspaper photographer ...

Bill Owens’ first book, Suburbia, published in 1973, was an instant success and later gained recognition as one the most influential photography books of the twentieth century. Bill’s peculiar ...