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Joseph Szabo takes wonderful, deceptively simple, unpretentious and intimate photographs of teenagers, and has done so for the past three decades. Szabo’s books of Almost Grown, Teenagers, and Rolling Stones Fans, deliver a body of work at once unique and universal.

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nobody in particular said | 24 October, 2007

That girl smoking in also on the cover of Dinsoaur Jr’s Green Mind, one of my favorite albums. And coincidentally those pictures on the beach are from the town I grew up in on Long Island in NY.

Dan Morgan said | 24 October, 2007

J Mascis used the top image for the cover of Dinosaur Jr’s “Green Mind” released in 1991. Awesome picture… I always thought the cigeratte had been added for effect.. it appears not!

Belle said | 25 October, 2007

I love his photography! thanks for doniing a spotlight on him :)

Salimah said | 26 October, 2007

Amazing work! He REALLY captures teen urge.

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