Joseph Szabo (photographer)

Joseph Szabo (born 1944) is an American photographer.

Life and career

Szabo was born in Toledo, Ohio. He studied photography at the Pratt Institute 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. Joseph Szabo is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship [1][2] and his work resides in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ,[3] Yale University, The International Centre of Photography and the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, amongst others. He is most notable for his photographs of American youth taken during the 1970s and collected in the books Almost Grown and Teenage. His photograph "Priscilla" adorns the cover of alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr's 1991 album Green Mind. He currently lives in Amityville, New York with his wife Nancy and their Golden Retriever.

Books by Szabo

  • Almost Grown. 1978. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-53327-8. (photographs by Joseph Szabo & poetry collected by Alan Ziegler).
  • Teenage. 2003. Greybull Press.
  • Rolling Stones Fans. 32pp. 2007. PAMbook.
  • Jones Beach. 2010. Harry N. Abrams Inc.
  • Rolling Stones Fans. 102pp.2015. Damiani

Contributions to publications

  • Contatti. Provini d'Autore = Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet. Vol. I. Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis. Rome: Postcart, 2012. ISBN 978-88-86795-87-6.

References

  1. ↑ NEA 1984 Annual report Archived 2011-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. (PDF), page 227.
  2. ↑ "Dazed and confused: Joseph Szabo's portraits of adolescence – in pictures". the Guardian. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Artist listing, Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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