The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola
In 1973 he started teaching darkroom-photography classes at Malverne High. He found that showing kids how to make their own prints, the inextinguishable magic of watching pictures emerge from a chemical developer, was a way to spark interest and connect with students who often seemed more disaffected from school than he remembered ever having been himself. “They’d be, like, I’m staying in this class; I’ve got to be able to do this thing with a camera,” Szabo, who is now eighty-two, told me recently.
- ▪In 1973 he started teaching darkroom-photography classes at Malverne High.
- ▪He found that showing kids how to make their own prints, the inextinguishable magic of watching pictures emerge from a chemical developer, was a way to spark interest and connect with students who often seemed more disaffected from school t
- ▪“They’d be, like, I’m staying in this class; I’ve got to be able to do this thing with a camera,” Szabo, who is now eighty-two, told me recently.
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Photo BoothThe Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia CoppolaJoseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.By Margaret TalbotSeptember 26, 2026Photographs by Joseph SzaboSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyThe photographer Joseph Szabo’s pictures in the new book “American Teen” look timeless in certain ways—the crisp black-and-white of the images, the stately framing, the instantly recognizable, casual but charged, proximity of teen-agers hanging out, arms slung over their friends’ shoulders, heads tipped together, close enough to smell one another’s shampoo.
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