Joseph Szabo

Joseph Szabo was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1944. He studied photography at the Pratt Institute where he received his MFA. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island from 1972 - 1999 and also at the International Centre of Photography, New York for over 20 years. Szabo's first book, Almost Grown (1978), was acclaimed by the American Library Association and faded somewhat into obscurity until it became a cult classic amongst a generation of young British and American fashion photographers. His second book, Teenage was published in 2003 and is a poignant chronicle of Szabo's work. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Visual 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 Bibliotheque National in Paris amongst others.