Joseph
Szabo (born 1944 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American photographer.
Szabo
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 and his work resides in the
permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Yale
University, The International Centre of Photography and the
Bibliothèque National 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 Siberian Husky, Gala.
Books
- 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.
