Bill Owens, whose images of the East Bay appear in the book Suburbia, will discuss this book and more recent projects at the Castro Valley Library on Sunday, September 10 at 2 pm.

Suburbia, considered one of the most influential photography books of the 20th century, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Owens will also talk about his career in photojournalism and a novel, The Delco Years, about a group of local craft beer drinkers and how they survive after a dystopian pandemic.

A man of many talents, Owens’ was a photographer at the Livermore Independent and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. He established Buffalo Bill’s in Hayward, one of the nation’s first brew pubs, published BEER the Magazine, and formed the American Distilling Institute in Hayward in 2003.

His photographs are highly sought after and can be found in the Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Suburbia and Bill’s other books will be for sale after the event.

No Registration Required. Contact the Castro Valley Library or visit our website at www.aclibrary.org for more information about our events.