birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
san jose , california 25 september 1938 suburbia bill owens -lrb- photographer -rrb-
 bill owens photographer
bill owens -lrb- photographer -rrb-

bill owens -lrb- born september 25 , 1938 -rrb- is an american photographer , photojournalist , brewer and editor living in hayward , california .
the recipient of a guggenheim fellowship in 1976 and two nea grants , he is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the east bay and published in the book `` suburbia '' in 1973 .
according to `` the new york sun '' , `` bill owens is one of the very few photographers to have shot people in the suburbs to any great extent .
there is a long , long list of photographers who made their reputations shooting in cities and a shorter but impressive list who made their names with studies of rural communities , but mr. owens is uniquely associated with suburbanites living in the tract housing developments that absorbed 60 million americans in the decades following world war ii . ''
