Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents

Yup that all looks familiar!

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.

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

When that Dinosaur Jr. album cover showed up it made so much sense.

Lovely pics, but no country as much as America idolizes and worships its adolescents..MTV, VH1, now instagram, tiktok and all that.. according to mass media we spend the rest 50 years of our lives trying to recapture that short youthful phase.. in reality for a lot people adolescence was a painful and thankfully short period from which you matured and and were able to appreciate adulthood.. nothing wrong with few gray hairs too

The venture capitalists all ran here.

Ah, yes, the 1970s, before the invention of color film.

Fascinating to see what would now be labelled as "unrealistic female beauty standards" depicted here.