Joseph Szabo (born 1944) is an American

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whose work is about

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Life and career

Szabo was born in

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. He studied

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at the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

where he received his MFA. He taught photography at Malverne High School in

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from 1972 to 1999 and he continues to teach at the

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(ICP). Szabo is the recipient of a

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Fellowship and his work resides in the permanent collections of the

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Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, ICP and the

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in Paris. He is most notable for his photographs of American youth taken during the 1970s and collected in the books ''Almost Grown'' and ''Teenage.'' His photograph "Priscilla" was featured as the cover of alternative rock band

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's 1991 album ''

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.'' Szabo made a body of work on

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fans photographed at a concert in Philadelphia in 1978. He currently lives in

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with his wife Nancy.

Publications

Publications by Szabo

*''Almost Grown.'' 1978. New York: Harmony. . Photographs by Szabo and poetry collected by Alan Ziegler. With a foreword by

Cornell Capa Cornell Capa (born Kornél Friedmann; April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from Imr ...

. *''Teenage.'' Greybull, 2003. . *''Rolling Stones Fans.'' PAMbook, 2007. . Paperback. **''Rolling Stones Fans.'' Damiani, 2015. . Hardback. *''Jones Beach.'' Harry N. Abrams, 2010. . With a foreword by Bruce Weber and an introduction by

Vince Aletti Vince Aletti (born 1945) is a curator, writer, and photography critic. Career Music industry Aletti was a contributing writer for ''Rolling Stone'' from 1970 to 1989. He was the first person to write about disco in an article published by the m ...

. *''Lifeguard.'' Damiani, 2018. .

Publications with contributions by Szabo

*''Contatti. Provini d'Autore'' = ''Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet''. Vol. I. Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis. Rome: Postcart, 2012. .

References

External links

Szabo at the Gitterman Gallery"Dazed and confused: Joseph Szabo's portraits of adolescence – in pictures""Satisfaction guaranteed: Rolling Stones fans steal the show"
a gallery of photos at ''The Guardian'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Szabo, Joseph American photographers 1944 births Living people Artists from Toledo, Ohio People from Amityville, New York Pratt Institute alumni National Endowment for the Arts Fellows