John Szabo.
Awwww.. this girl was on my favourite Dinosaur Jr. band-tshirt when i was in highschool (and also the “Green Mind” album cover). Wearing this tshirt in the schoolyard is how i met Max, the american exchange student from Washington D.C. He was wearing the very same shirt and that incident let us become best friends during my last year in highschool till he went back to D.C. I finally met someone i could talk to about music for hours. Lots of fond memories. Yeah, we just talked! :-)
Today i found the new Lost at E Minor newsletter in my inbox and there was an interesting topic about Joseph Szabo in it. He is the photographer of this picture. So i wanted to know more about him.
Joseph Szabo’s subject is adolescence – the all too familiar, twilight time of life between childhood and young adulthood. For 25 years Szabo truthfully documented his teenage students at Malverne High School, Long Island. Taken in the seventies and eighties, these photographs represent a remarkable evocation of that period and yet there remains something timeless and compelling about Szabo’s portrait of the almost grown.
Here is a website about him. There is also a vintage book out there i definitely have to buy!
(BTW the girl’s name is Priscilla and the picture is from1969. I always thought she is too cool for school when i was young and a Dinsosaur Jr. fan..)
Daniel Santucci…
29. October 2007
yeah. this shirt is still at my mom’s house in all its faded glory. i would still rock it but it doesn’t fit anymore..er um it is too BIG! those were the days.
green mind is a classic record.
Gaston…
10. November 2007
Green Mind is the soundtrack of my youth. I still play it every time I need to feel something good.
Thanks for the facts about the photographer.
And nice to meet you. A green-mind-soul-mate.
Weezy…
21. November 2007
Does anyone know where i can get one of these shirts, been looking everywhere?
Deidra…
23. March 2008
I graduated from Malverne High School in the 1980s. I remember we received brand new text books for health class during my sophomore year and one of the pics was from Mr. Szabo of former Malverne alum smoking cigarettes near the front of the school. Mr. Szabo took so many pics and sold them to agencies who later put them in publications that he would have no knowledge about. We showed Szabo the photo and he… always quiet… just shrugged and said it was good to see where one of his photos wound up.
Deidra…
23. March 2008
What’s wierder than wierd is seeing kids I KNOW in some of his 1980s photos! God, he made us look good!! I’m sure most of my classmates don’t even know they are in these books.
Christopher Davies-Colora…
25. March 2008
I consider Joe Szabo my mentor. I was very fortunate to have studied under him in high school and consider him a great friend. I later went on to manage numerous companies in the photographic industry, including GMI Photographic/Bronica and The Charles Besseler Company. I am now focusing on photography again, as publisher of Wine Country International ® magazine. Joe is still a big influence on the way I can “see” photographically.
Szabo’s work is going to be recognized as a great study of adolescence for centuries to come.
Chris Davies
Martha Trice Lewis…
16. June 2008
Wow, I just found this web site by accident. Hi Chris!..
Anyway Joe was a mentor to my brother in law Steven Lewis, You should see our Malverne High Year books, classic photos!
I even saw Joe at a Christmas party not too long ago!
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