Now in paperback! Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in "Teenage" represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood. Some kids are painfully self-conscious, others are self-assured beyond their years--all have allowed Szabo the ...
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Now in paperback! Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in "Teenage" represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood. Some kids are painfully self-conscious, others are self-assured beyond their years--all have allowed Szabo the unique trust of seeing them as they are. The fine line between intimacy and exploitation that other photographers approach is not in evidence here--Szabo has no agenda beyond the recording of these moments of extreme loveliness, bravado and confusion. With an introduction by writer/director Cameron Crowe--himself an expert chronicler of the excitement and heartbreak of youth, having directed "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and more recently "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown"--"Teenage" is a poignant record of Szabo's work spanning two decades, a timeless evocation of almost-adulthood.
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Add this copy of Teenage to cart. $350.00, very good condition, Sold by The Chatham Bookseller rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Madison, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Greybull Press.
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Near Fine. 11 1/2" x 11" 168pp. Photo frontispiece. Pictorial endpapers. very light rubs at the spine corners, othrewise like new. Black and white photographs of High School teenagers throughout. "Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood. Some kids are painfully self-conscious, others are self-assured beyond their years--all have allowed Szabo the unique trust of seeing them as they are."
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Add this copy of Teenage to cart. $449.50, very good condition, Sold by Magers and Quinn Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Greybull Press.
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Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. First Edition(Stated). Book is in Very Good condition. Clean covers and pages. Rubbing to corners and a very slight spine lean. Photos upon request.
Add this copy of Joseph Szabo: Teenage to cart. $450.00, very good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Greybull Press.
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Very Good. No jacket, as issued. Cloth pictorial boards show a few small spots of light abrasions. Mild corner wear. Pages show hint of yellowing at edges. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore since 1992.
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(SZABO, JOSEPH). Szabo, Joseph. Introduction by Cameron Crowe. JOSEPH SZABO: TEENAGE-DELUXE BOXED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by the Photographer with a b&w Photograph. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2003. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Square 4to. Pictorial Boards, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket-As Issued. np (168pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild. Joseph Szabo's seldom-seen first book "Almost Grown" has become a photographic cult classic. An inspiration for the look of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides", its matter-of-fact snaps of seventies Long Island teenagers captured at school and the beach are keenly telling of that time in our lives when social acceptance and what clothes we wore meant nearly everything. In "Teenage", his first anthology of work since 1978, here again are the students of Malverne High School (where Szabo taught photography from 1972 to 1999) along with a charming introduction by director Cameron Crowe, whose teens of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" occupied a fictional, yet parallel universe. The photographer's intimacy with these kids is uncanny-he still seems like a fly on the wall even when his subjects are staring straight into the lens. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to fifty copies housed in a printed pictorial clamshell box along with the black and white photograph "Night Owls on Broadway" SIGNED AND NUMBERED (38/50) by Joseph Szabo on the recto in black ink, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value-we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9727788-0-2 Inventory Number: 025455.
