Joe Szabo: Hometown

Name: Joe Szabo: Hometown
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9788862087346
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Hometown gathers suburban landscape photographs captured by Joe Szabo on Long Island between 1973 and 1980. These images evoke a poignant nostalgia linked to Szabo's own youth, portraying familiar settings from his daily life and offering an autobiographical glimpse into suburban America. The collection complements his earlier works, enriching the narrative of suburban life that Szabo has explored over nearly four decades.
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This book will appeal to enthusiasts of photographic art, American cultural history, and readers drawn to evocative autobiographical and nostalgic visual narratives.

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Hometown collects a series of suburban landscape photographs taken on Long Island between 1973-1980 by Joseph Szabo. Sharing the same DNA as his Teenage and Almost Grown series, Szabo's Hometown images conjure up an instant nostalgia, recalling fond memories of Szabo's childhood and adolescence in suburbia.

Szabo explains, "The Hometown scenes reminded me of places I knew from my youth, places that I saw on my way to school, church, or the museum. They struck an emotional chord in me, one that is hard to put into words but that revealed their connection to my own past. In that sense, Hometown is autobiographical."

Building on his past work, Hometown gives context to the suburban lives that Szabo has documented so effectively for almost forty years.

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Reviewers praise Hometown for transporting viewers to the golden age of suburbia, highlighting the photographs' ability to preserve hope and faith through the warmth of memory as noted by Miss Rosen "Blind".

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788862087346

Publisher: Damiani

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2020

Country: Italy

Imprint: Damiani

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 650g

Pages: 72

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Arts & Culture Joe Szabo Non-Fiction

About the Author

Joseph Szabo is a teacher, photographer, and author. His 1978 book Almost Grown was acclaimed as one of the "Best Books of the Year" by the American Library Association and attained cult classic status in the fashion world. In 2003, Szabo released Teenage.

Szabo is the recipient of a photography fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and his images reside in the collections of the Bibliothèque National in Paris, The George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among many others. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The London Times, and French Vogue, and he has exhibited at galleries in Paris, London, Japan, New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.