Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and began his journey as a documentarian. While living in Livermore, California, in the late 1960s, he worked as a photographer for the local newspaper. He became increasingly interested in the suburban areas that became heavily populated after WWII.
Owens started photographing middle-class America and would eventually publish a best-selling book, Suburbia, in 1972. Suburbia is considered one of the most important photography books to date. He went on to publish three more books, Our Kind of People, Working and Leisure, focusing on the suburbanites of America.
Owens was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, which he received in 1976.
Between working commercially and on personal photographic projects, he opened a brewery in California in 1983 and became so enamored with craft beer that he founded the American Distilling Institute and American Brewer magazine.
The photographs of Bill Owens are highly sought after and can be found in private and public collections such as the Getty Museum, Modern Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
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New Suburbia, Hayward (Weed Wacker), from New Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 5 Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink on print verso. Series: New Suburbia Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he pi...
Digital Pigment
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Walmart
By Bill Owens
Located in New York, NY
Chromogenic print Signed, verso This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
C Print
Movie Road, California - The Sundance Series
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Titled the 'Sundance Series', these artworks are a development of traditional landscape photographs and they have created a unique perspective as if captured through a telescope or a...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Nirvana Nevermind Underwater
By Kirk Weddle
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition photographic print of Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana by photographer Kirk Weddle from the famous 1991 sw...
Digital Pigment
$1,444
H 24 in W 17 in
Tree, Color Photograph of Surma Tribe Boys, Africa, 24x17, Edition of 5, Signed
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
A contemporary color photograph by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge, Tree, 1996 is a portrait of Surma Tribe boys from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa. This is an...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
$1,600
H 19 in W 13 in
Little Surma Boy, Color Photography, on Handmade Paper, Signed Edition 2/5
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
Little Surma Boy, 1996 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge, is a contemporary color photograph of a child from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa. The photograph is printe...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
$1,500
H 19 in W 13 in
Nomad Princesses, Omo Valley, Africa, Color Photograph, Signed, Edition 1/5
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
Nomad Princesses, 1996 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge, is a contemporary color photograph 19" x 13" of two bare-breasted women with painted faces, enlarged ears, and tribal jewelry from th...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
$1,600
H 13 in W 19 in
Two Sisters, Africa, Color Photograph, on Handmade Awagami Paper, 1/5, Signed
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
On handmade Japanese Awagami paper, Two Sisters from a series on the Nomadic Surma tribe in Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa is by JM Voge. An editioned work,...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
$580
H 15.75 in W 15.36 in D 0.04 in
Love Scene against the Wall from Sidewinder, part 3 - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love Scene against the Wall - part 3 (Sidewinder) - 2007, 40x39cm, Edition 3/10. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$1,600
H 13 in W 19 in
Painted Faces, Color Photography of Surma Women, Africa, Signed, 2/5 Edition
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
Painted Faces, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge, is a contemporary color photograph 13" x 19" of two women with painted faces from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa. Th...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
$1,600
H 19 in W 13 in
Boy with Calf, Color Photograph, Signed Edition 2/5, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
Boy with Calf, 1996 by Jean-Michell Voge, is a contemporary color photograph 19" x 13" of a nomadic tribal child from the Surma tribe, painted from head to toe, posing with a calf wi...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
$1,750
H 24 in W 17 in
Dee Dee Bridgewater and Daughter China Moses, Jazz, Signed Photograph, 1987
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
In 1986 African-American musician Dee Dee Bridgewater left the United States and moved to Paris, France where she lived for the next fifteen years with her family, two daughters and ...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
$2,444
H 17 in W 23 in
Portrait Photograph, Louise Bourgeois in her Studio, 1992, Signed, Edition
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
One of the most celebrated 20th Century artists, French-American woman artist, painter, printmaker, and sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) at 81 years old was photographed in 1992...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
$1,600
H 19 in W 13 in
Dandy, Portrait Photograph of Surma Boy, Africa, Signed, Edition 2/5, 1996
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
Dandy, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge is a photographic portrait of a colorfully painted boy with a feathered headdress from the Surma Tribe in Ethiopia, Africa. The photograph is printed by the artist on handmade Awagami Japanese paper. Signed on verso (back of photograph), In an edition of 5. Available: 2/5. Provenance: JM Voge Archive *** Artist's Bio: Jean-Michel (JM) Voge (b. 1949) is a fine art photographer, formerly editorial freelancer for magazines, such as Madame Figaro (1982-2010), Le Figaro Magazine, Point of View, Marie France, Town and Country, European Travel and LIFE, Fortune Magazine, and AD Spain. The French photographer published a critically-acclaimed monograph on portraits of Europeans, "Figures of Europe," which include portraits of influential Europeans through 1990. Among JM's personal projects, he photographed the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Hockney Painted This Pool
By Bill Owens
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 10 Signed and numbered in black ink on print verso. Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he picked up photography and began hi...
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