Owens’ suburban carnivalesque
“In the late 1960s, Bill Owens began photographing residents of the new suburban developments in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Livermore, where he lived… He demonstrates a clear affection for suburbanites as he mildly teases them for pursuing the tainted pleasures of the American consumer lifestyle. While others might criticize the denizens of suburbia for their materialism and emptiness, Owens marvels at the carnivalesque wonder of it all, using stark documentary images to peel back the layers of a world familiar to millions of Americans…”
