Bill Owens:
Photographing the Suburban Soul
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ypbYe_IkR1rQaziA8aTbVVO1SIvfnwKK/view
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This is an interesting article, not
only covering the new Topographic of photography but also background of Bill
Owens himself. Being brought up with parents who didn’t graduate but brought up
on humanitarian values, clear having a grounded background showed he had values
of the person not the luxury highlife that we live in today the need to be the
best or having the best and social values. His images from Jamaica in 1964 are of personal importance as my
uncle lived in Jamaica
from August 1964 to 1967 and with a clear memory of a photo my uncle had taken
of a young boy during his time there.
His attendances at anti Vietnam war demonstrations possibly images taken
by photographers like Phillip Jones Griffiths of Rhuddlan who’s work turned the world view
against the USA , his own contact sheets of the Vietnam War I saw in
Aberystwyth the National Library of Wales were powerful. His early life
hampered with dyslexia yet turned this in a way into a positive showing you can
overcome any issues if you put your mind to it. His way of living his own life
not what others expect him to see, in a world today of others trying to dictate
how we live was refreshing to read. You only have one life so live your life not
others life.
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