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Suburbia

Teacher and Kids on Rug in Classroom, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

1969–75
(American, b. 1938)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 14.1 x 21.2 cm (5 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.284
Location: not on view
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Since 1970, more Americans have lived in suburbs than in the cities they surround.

Description

In Suburbia, Bill Owens addresses suburban life in Northern California and the deflation of the American Dream in the 1970s. Contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson likened Owens’s images of suburban America to the writings and pictures of Edward Hopper, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver in the way they “find unexpected beauty and mystery within the American vernacular.”
Teacher and Kids on Rug in Classroom, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Teacher and Kids on Rug in Classroom, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

1969–75

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
America

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