Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents

Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents newyorker.com

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.

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Many of these kids look a lot older than high school age to me - I'd guess mid or even late twenties for some.

> Retrospective aging is the perceptual illusion where people from past decades look significantly older in old photographs and videos than people of the same age do today

Vsauce did an interesting video about this a while back[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjqt8T3tJIE

MisterBastahrd1 day ago

All of them spent significant time outdoors every year and none of them are obese.

dmwood2 days ago

Photo editor of a 1970 high school yearbook here. These are accurate reflections of MY memories too. Maybe it was a Yashica Mat I used...

WalterBright2 days ago

Yup that all looks familiar!

If you want to see a realistic depiction of 1970s teens see the movie "Over The Edge". The plot is absurd, but it captured the way the teens looked and acted.

Interestingly, at the time kids carried oversized combs in their pockets (including the boys). The movie is the only one I've seen where the kids carried those combs.

blendo2 days ago

High school class of 1974 here. We loved the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 60s, but we also were keenly aware of the impermanance of the hedonistic lifestyles of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Huarache12 days ago

High school class of 2020 here. We wish we could have the life our boomer forefathers did, but their life was so hedonistic, they destroyed ours by proxy.

GaryBluto2 days ago

You wish you could be hedonistic, but you cannot because your “forefathers” were also?

freetime22 days ago

Interesting. Can you give some examples of how boomers were more hedonistic than earlier/later generations, and how that destroyed your life? I'd be particularly interested to see how you feel boomers compare to your own generation with regard to hedonism?

I'm wondering if young people are really less hedonistic now, or if the types of hedonistic activies people engage in have just changed? Would you consider doomscrolling to be a form of hedonism, for example?

ivansavz2 days ago

Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/jF2dj

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