Self-Portrait with Wig Display
Bill Owens American
Not on view
Owens is best known for his wry documentation of the lives of white middle-class Americans in the suburbs of northern California, which were collected in his classic photo-book, Suburbia (1973). While he was working on the Suburbia project, Owens made this self-portrait in a wig shop mirror. Surrounded by hair pieces designed to enhance or disguise one’s appearance, the well-coiffed photographer appears with his camera in the center of the frame, hidden in plain sight, enacting an engaging play of reality and appearance, authenticity and masquerade.
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