Front Cover, image source: Artphilein Library

Publisher Note

“Almost every photo in Suburbia repays attentive looking, with details that turn an average photo into a great one… A groundbreaking exemplar of documentary photography” (New York Times). In Suburbia, Bill Owens accomplished an “exemplary, no-frills documentary tone… one of the most popular and successful American photobooks of the 1970s” (Parr & Badger II:24). “Suburbia is too sympathetic and too conflicted to be simply another ironic deadpan document… This delicate balance of outsider and insider perspectives turns the resulting book into a critical self-portrait—one that’s almost painfully observant but withholds judgment” (Roth, 224).

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