Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in their Bedrooms

book design for Adrienne Salinger and DAP
Preface by Adrienne Salinger; Introduction by Tobias Wolff; Afterword by Sara Lippman

From Tobias Wolff’s introduction:
The idea behind most pictures is to capture the present as it becomes the past. Not the pictures in this book. What Adrienne Salinger has given us here are images of the present as it becomes the future. She’s caught these emerging citizens, these teenagers in their bedrooms, just as they’re about to enter the fullness of their lives. The future waits outside every frame.

From Sara Lippmann’s afterword:
In 1995, Adrienne Salinger ventured behind those coveted closed doors to capture their inimitable essence in her iconic book In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms.
What she found was all of us.
We were there in the posters on the wall: Star Wars, Pac-Man, Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss.
In the skater swag, the flags and tube socks, the cheap trophies, and tchotchkes. We were there in the dolls and stuffed animals, the Garfield paraphernalia, the life-size Pink Panther. The array of license plates and No Parking signs....
Thirty years later, the central question shifts. Where are they going? becomes Where have they been? With the reissue — including 28 new archival images — Salinger invites us to revisit this critical time on the cusp of adulthood through the lens of retrospection. To hold what we now know against what we thought we knew, and what we had no goddamn clue about. What has become of her subjects and their futures? Some, inevitably, have kids of their own. Teenagers. Some may even have grandchildren.

144 pages
11.5 x 10 inches