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[I'm a refugee from China...]
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
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- 1977 or before
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- db4a22f8-4ab2-430a-aa3e-d3bbf4d71548
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