Suburbia is a book by Bill Owens, a photojournalism monograph on suburbia, published in 1973 by Straight Arrow Press, the former book publishing imprint of Rolling Stone. A revised edition was published in 1999 by Fotofolio ().
Background Owens primarily photographed residents of Livermore, California as a photographer for Livermore Independent News. Most of the images are black-and-white, shot with a wide-angle lens, and paired with captions drawn from the subjects' own words.
Response Art Seidenbaum wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the book was:
Ian Jeffrey later noted that:
In 2001, Suburbia was included in Andrew Roth's The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century.
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External links
Suburbia online gallery at the California Museum of Photography website Suburbia online gallery at the Brigham Young University website Bill Owens. Vine Cinema, 1722 First Street, Livermore billboard, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), from Suburbia, 1969-72 - MutualArt