Bill Owens (born September 25, 1938) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California.

According to The New York Sun, "Owens is uniquely associated with suburbanites living in the tract housing developments that absorbed 60 million Americans in the decades following World War II.

[3] He served in the Peace Corps in Jamaica[3] and, upon returning to the USA, lived and worked in the town of Livermore in the San Francisco Bay Area, as a staff photographer for a local newspaper.

[4] In 1973, Owens released the book Suburbia, whose pictures showed American suburban life in Livermore.

[5] The Los Angeles Times commented that the book "rouses pity, contempt, laughter, and self-recognition.