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It's Complicated The American Teenager

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ISBN-10: 1884167691

ISBN-13: 9781884167690

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robin Bowman, Robert Coles, Robert Coles

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Robin Bowman, a 2005 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fellow, is a photojournalist devoted to documenting the poignant social and political issues of our age.A traveling exhibition of the portraits will open at the museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry & medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School, a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services, & the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard College. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Children of Crisis" series as well as the best-selling "The Spiritual Life of Children" & "The Moral Intelligence of Children". Dr. Coles is a founding editor of the award-winning magazine "DoubleTake".