the Fashion Spot - Joseph Szabo

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Teenage By Joseph Szabo

super cool book of black and white photographs
of long island teens in the 70's and 80's real L.I stylee! :heart:

http://www.colette.fr/colette/upload...ek3/77/001.jpg http://www.colette.fr/colette/upload...ek3/77/002.jpg
http://www.colette.fr/colette/upload...ek3/77/004.jpg http://www.colette.fr/colette/upload...ek3/77/005.jpg

avail. at colette , and im sure others places too.....

Wow! Interestings photo's...i especially adore the bottom right hand photo. thanks for the pics Lo

I'd love to flick through that!

Thanks Lo!

Wow this looks really really cool :o :heart: :flower: !
thx Lo :blush:

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i would love to get this book! how old is that little girl w/ the ciggie? :blink:
love the scare hair :rofl: looks like she was getting ready for the def leoppard concert at nassau collisuem ..EEK!

not huge on the whole 80s-retro thing.

But the pics are unique.

most of them are actually from the 70's. camron cro writes the forward aslo

still loving these photos. would i be able to find this book at any normal bookshop? That girl with the cig. reminds me of the girl from american graffitti who's somewhere around the age of 12 and drives around with the bad-*** all night.

no...i'm hoping the date on this post is wrong ahah cuz this would be a late response, but it's a collector's item now and is out of print. i love this book so so much too but the photos alone cost around 500(for a print..original i don't know).

Joseph Szabo - Photographer

I love his work!!!:heart:

all Pictures and article from http://www.mbfala.com/

http://www.mbfala.com/Szabo/JS_16A_L.jpg
Priscilla 1969

http://www.mbfala.com/Szabo/JS_1-Anthony&Terry-77_L.jpg
Anthony and Terry, Lunch Break 1977

http://www.mbfala.com/Szabo/JS_07T_L.jpg
Bernie 1977

http://www.mbfala.com/Szabo/JS_5-ExamsCarola-83_L.jpg
Carola in Exams 1983

http://www.mbfala.com/Szabo/JS_2-Barbara-77_L.jpg
Barbara 1977

http://www.mbfala.com/Szabo/JS_8-Pri...oment-73_L.jpg
Private Moment 1973

Quote:

The backdrops for Szabo's photographs are hallways, classrooms and the parking lots of High School. Some of his subjects are sweetly self-conscious, whilst others are self-assured beyond their years. Szabo captures the pathological significance of clothes, the stylistic necessity of cigarettes, the heavy mascara, the convertibles, the longing, the blossoming sexuality, the confusion and the time spent just doing nothing. Szabo has no agenda, and the fine line between intimacy and exploitation that other photographers sometimes approach is simply not in evidence.
Szabo's first book Almost Grown published in 1978 by Harmony House was acclaimed by the American Library association. The book faded somewhat into obscurity until it became a cult classic amongst a generation of young British and American fashion photographers and film directors, including Sophia Coppola and Cameron Crowe. In 2003, Greybull Press re-made and expanded his earlier book as Teenage , which is a poignant chronicle of Szabo's work spanning two decades and includes an introduction by Crowe.
Joseph Szabo was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1944. He studied photography at the Pratt Institute where he received his MFA. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island, New York from 1972 to 1999, and he continues to teach at the International Centre of Photography, New York. Szabo is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship, and his work resides in some of the most important public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Yale University, New Haven, CT; the International Center of Photography, New York; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; among others. He currently lives in Amityville, New York with his wife Nancy.

That first photo was used on an album cover for the band Dinosaur Jr. for their album Green Mind. (1991)

I just got his "Rolling Stone Fans" mini book. It's nice, but I expected a lot more, not nearly as amazing as "Teenager".