Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Bill Owens
Selected Images
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Bill Owens
B. 1938
Selected Images
a group of 36 gelatin silver prints and 3 chromogenic prints, comprising photographs from Suburbia, Our Kind of People, and Working (I do it for the Money), each signed in pencil or with the photographer's Livermore or Hayward studio stamp and many with caption labels, Magnum Photo Library Print stamps, Archive Pictures stamps, numerical stamps, and annotations in ink and pencil on the reverse, 7 framed, 1969-80
the images to: 14⅞ by 16½ in. (37.8 by 41.9 cm.)
the frames to: 24½ by 30 in. (62.2 by 76.2 cm.)
Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 79
Bill Owens, Working: I do it for the Money (New York, 1977), unpaginated
Robert Harshorn Shimshak, ed., Bill Owens: Suburbia (New York, 1999), pp. 13, 20 (variant), 29, 37, 41, 42, 70, 85, 88, 91, and 120
Bill Owens, Leisure (New York, 2004), p. 10 (variant)
Claudi Zanfi, ed., Bill Owens Photographs (Bologna, 2007), pp. 62, 65, 68, 70, 74-75, 76, 92, 97, 104-5, and 119 (variant)