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The American Teenager
Umbrage
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
160 pages ISBN: 1884167691 EAN: 9781884167690 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage
America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,”
wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now
coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs,
presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion,
pride, embarrassment, lust, pain, bewilderment, anxiety,
joy, uncertainty, and rage, the book charts the coming of
age of the largest generation in America—77 million
strong—in every region of the country and every
socioeconomic group: from a Texas debutante to teenage gang
members in New York City, from a drag queen in Georgia to a
coal miner in West Virginia. Bowman’s intimate photographs ask us to reconcile
preconceived ideas and stereotypes of teenagers with the
diversity of individuals in the portraits. This book and the
traveling exhibition it accompanies are about the inside
lives of these kids and how they see their reality in their
own voices.
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