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 Gage Boone, age 17, Wilson Boone, age 15, Springfield, MA, July 8, 2002 |
 Patrick Roberts, age 19, Lawrence, KS, July 2, 2004 
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 Anastaizshzie (Tish) Rains, age 16, Los Angeles, CA, August 29, 2002
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 April Collins, age 19, Springfield, MO, July 1, 2004 |
 Morgan Richardson, age 15, Mt. Vernon, NY, January 27, 2002 |
 Naomi Sue Kramer, age 18, Marjorie Lynn Kramer, age 17, Jamesport, MO, July 5, 2004, July 16, 2004 |
 Blake Barlow, age 18, Easton, GA, May 24, 2002 |
 Amy Heldenfels, age 19, Austin, TX, August 6, 2002
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 Carlisle Eden, age 14, Mariah Eden, age 13, The Plains, VA, August 3, 2001 |
 Faduma Mohamed, age 16, Said Ahmed, age 15, Minneapolis MN, July 12, 2004 |
 Claire Louge, age 16, Ithaca, NY, February 15, 2003 |
 Courtney Paslick, age 17, Nashville TN, August 2, 2002 |
 Jason Kramer, age 18, Rockland, ME, July 5, 2002
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 Ford Sutter, age 16, Metaire, LA, February 8, 2004 |
 Brittany Nolans, age 19, Savannah, GA, March 28, 2002
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 Ajani Benjamin, age 19, Jamaica, Queens, NY, January 25, 2002 |
 Izi Schunick, age 18, Cambridge, MD, March 17, 2002 |
 Leighton Kohlmann, age 15, Kristen Tomeny, age 15, Liz Sowa, age 15, Hannah Kitziger, age 15, New Orleans, LA, February 7, 2004 |
 Jesse Brunet, (Voodoo Name Houngan Ti Damballah), age 19, Houma, LA, February 9, 2004 |
 Mark Fisher Niehuis, age 18, Queen Creek, AZ, Kendall Prall, age 17, Tucson, AZ, August 12, 2002 |
 Michael Mutlu, age 17, Bayside, Queens, NY, March 13, 2002 |
 Matthew Balthazar, age 17, Austin, TX, August 2, 2002 |
 Mendy Wolf, age 16, Menachem Moskowitz, age 15 Chicago, IL, Yosef Denburg, age 16, Boca Raton, FL, July 20, 2004 |
 Menucha Lederman, age 15, Perel Lederman age 19, Henna Lederman, age 13, Postville, IA, July 16, 2004
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 Aramitha Holland, age 19, Buffalo, NY, May 13, 2004 |
 Alex Stern, age 14, Wayland, MA, August 13, 2001 |
 Michael Raskin, age 14, Berkeley, CA, Rosie Fisher, age 14, San Francisco, CA, Bill Gies-Smith, age 16, Jacob Medina, age 15, Berkeley, CA, September 11, 2002 |
 Scott Grote, age 15, Centralia, IL, September 2, 2001 |
 Richard Benjamin, Jr., age 19, Selma, AL, February 19, 2004 |
 Roxy Trevino, age 17, Love Kye, age 19, Jamaica, Queens, NY, March 3, 2002
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 Tup, age 17, Philadelphia, PA, September 8, 2002 |
 Sharonda Rankin, age 19, Louvonda Rankin, age 19, Pattison, MO, February 14, 2004 |
 Shavaris Buie, age 18, Brooklyn, NY, January 31, 2002 |
 Charolette Rae Sage, age 15, Pinon, AZ, August 13, 2002
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 Stewart McAdams, age 16, Ray Mowrer, age 18, Jolo, W. VA, Jeremy Ball, age 17, Bradshaw, W. VA, Matthew Phillips, age 17, Paynesville, W. VA, March 24, 2002 |
 Victoria Lee, age 19, Jones, Alabama, February 20, 2004 |
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Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created
a series of 419 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares
her discoveries of a generation now coming of age in America. In searing
and intimate contemporary photographs, presented alongside with the
young people’s own voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust,
dread, pain, anxiety, instability and rage, the book charts the coming
of age of the largest generation ever in America, almost double the
1960s baby boomers. In her exploration, she traveled 21,731 miles to
photograph teens 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. Her intimate
photographs invite individuals to look more closely at how complex challenges
facing a rising generation of Americans have informed individual identities.
The photographs also ask us to reconcile preconceived ideas and stereotypes
of teenagers with the diversity of individuals in the portraits. The
77 million teenagers’ now or soon to enter high school are the
Gen Y, following on another 50 million they called Gen X. This book
and the traveling exhibition it accompanies are about the inside lives
of these kids and how they see their reality. |
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