The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola
The 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. Here they are, crammed together in the random corners they stake out on a big high-school campus, or thigh to thigh on a patchwork of beach towels, or whispering in one another’s ears, thick as thieves, magnetized by one another as by nobody and nothing else. Parents disagreed on whether to vaccinate their children. Then the kids got sick. Parents disagreed on whether to vaccinate their children. Then the kids got sick. Take a break with our Puzzles & Games. Take a break with our Puzzles & Games.
