#38 American legend Bill Owens

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#38 American legend Bill Owens

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Jul 13, 2020

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Today the photographer's photographer, or documentarian's documenter, Bill Owens, whose work and seminal book Suburbia inspired many to discover a story could be found in the most ordinary of places, people and times. The first in a series of features of Bill, the farmer's son who went on to show pictures around the world of the American Dream. Send in your thoughts from the shows to studio@photographydaily.show

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Jul 13, 2020

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