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View works. Joseph Szabo, Beached Bikini, Jones Beach , 1989
Beached Bikini, Jones Beach , 1989
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In 1978, as the school year drew to a close, two of Joseph Szabo's high school students, who had tickets to a Rolling Stone Concert, asked if he would like to join them; an invite Szabo readily accepted. He consequently photographed the 90,000 Rolling Stone fans at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia that day. Over thirty years later, he revisited the contact sheets and selected those images that spoke to him after so many years.
 
Szabo's subject is adolescence and for twenty-five years he documented his teenage students at Malverne High School, Long Island. His photographs of the Long Island youth are a remarkable evocation of the Seventies and Eighties and yet there is also something timeless and compelling about Szabo's portrayal of the universal teenager.
 
Szabo was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1944. He studied photography at the Pratt Institute, New York 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 (ICP). He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship and his work resides in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University, the ICP and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, amongst others. He currently lives in Amityville, New York with his wife Nancy and Siberian Husky, Gala.
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