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(SZABO, JOSEPH). Szabo, Joseph. Introduction by Cameron Crowe. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2003. First Edition. Square 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (168pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild. Joseph Szabo's seldom-seen first book "Almost Grown" has become a photographic cult classic. An inspiration for the look of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides", its matter-of-fact snaps of seventies Long Island teenagers captured at school and the beach are keenly telling of that time in our lives when social acceptance and what clothes we wore meant nearly everything. In "Teenage", his first anthology of work since 1978, here again are the students of Malverne High School (where Szabo taught photography from 1972 to 1999) along with a charming introduction by director Cameron Crowe, whose teens of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" occupied a fictional, yet parallel universe. The photographer's intimacy with these kids is uncanny - he still seems like a fly on the wall even when his subjects are staring straight into the lens. A most handsome example BOLDLY SIGNED by Joseph Szabo in black ink on the title page. 0-9727788-0-2 Inventory Number: 020363