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[Being a Mechanic is All I've Ever Known...]
Creator
Bill OwensAmerican Photographer · 1938–present
All works by this person →> To me, nothing seemed familiar yet everything was very, very familiar. At first I suffered from culture shock. I wanted to photograph everything, thousands of photographs. Then slowly I began to put my thoughts and feelings together and to document Americans in Suburbia. . . The photos. . . express the lives of the people I know. > > --Bill Owens Bill Owens's 1972 book _Suburbia_ met with immedi
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1976 or before
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ccda140b-5b08-44d5-9ae4-625997afc547
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