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Suburbia (book)

Suburbia is a book by Bill Owens, a photojournalism monograph on suburbia, published in 1973 by Straight Arrow Press, the former book publishing imprint of Rolling Stone. A revised edition was published in 1999 by Fotofolio ().

Background

Owens photographed residents of Dublin, California, a small cattle town east of San Francisco whose population surged from roughly 1,000 to 25,000 during the 1960s. Most of the images are black-and-white, shot with a wide-angle lens, and paired with captions drawn from the subjects' own words.

Response

Art Seidenbaum wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the book was:

Ian Jeffrey later noted that:

In 2001, Suburbia was included in Andrew Roth's The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century.

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