Tusen och En Bild/1001 One Pictures; Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Work Show; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum,
San Francisco, California
1980 La Photo Galeria; Madrid, Spain, and traveled to
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Munich, Germany, Gen-
eva, Switzerland, and London, England
1981 Biennale of Venezie; Venice, Italy
Photography in the 60s and 70s; International Center
of Photography, New York, New York
Coming of Age; Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona
1999 Pure Products of America: Photographs 1968–1978 by
Robert Adams, Bill Owens and Henry Wessel; Matthew
Marks Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900–2000;Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Selected Works
Owens, Bill. Suburbia. San Francisco: Straight Arrow
Books, 1972
———.Our Kind of People. San Francisco: Straight Arrow
Books, 1974
———.Working: I Do it for the Money. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1976Further Reading
Boxer, Sarah. ‘‘Shades of Suburban Blues.’’New York
Times(July 2, 1999).
Newman, David M.Sociology, Exploring the Architecture
of Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press,
1997.
Owens, Bill.Suburbia. New York: Fotofolio, 1999.
Owens, Bill.Documentary Photography, a Personal View by
Bill Owens. Danbury, NH: Addison House Publishers,
1978.
Roth, Andrew, ed.The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photo-
graphic Books of the Twentieth Century. New York:
Roth Horowitz, 2001.
Smith, Roberta. ‘‘Suburban Folk Tales.’’New York Times
(November 12, 1999).
Szarkowski, John.Mirrors and Windows: American Photo-
graphy Since 1960. New York: The Museum of Modern
Art, 1978.Bill Owens, Untitled, 1972, 11 1400 gelatin silver print.
[Courtesy of the artist and Robert Harshorn Shimshak]
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