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Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks

Artist: Bill Owens

Exhibition: 16.07.2011 - 05.02.2012

Exhibitor: San Jose Museum of Art
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City: San Jose
Homepage: San Jose Museum of Art




 


"Ordinary folks doing ordinary things" - that is how photographer Bill Owens described his subjects. Like a visual anthropologist, Owens astutely recorded the customs, symbols, and social relationships that characterized American middle-class culture in the 1970s. Owens adopted an air of objectivity that recalls the New Topographics, a generation of photographers such as Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams, and Joel Deal, who portrayed the built environment with detachment. 

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Artists: Bill Owens