Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream. Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go … Continue reading "1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls"
The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s
Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream. Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go … Continue reading "1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls"
In the 1980s a cousin’s bedroom was covered in pictures of Duran Duran. No. Not exactly. Rewind. Simon Le Bon was there by committee. It was more covered in jus
Larry P. You can thank Aaron Spelling for Adrienne Salinger’s amusing and poignant images of mid-1990s teens hanging out in their bedrooms, which were collected in a 1995 book called In My Room. In a recent interview with Huck Magazine, she noted that I actually worked on that project for a long time. I started it on the West Coast, when I lived there, just out of frustration at the ways teenagers were being depicted. Because this was before the internet, this was before computers, and our reliance on television was huge. There weren’t a lot of outlets for people to represent themselves, especially young people. There was this TV show I remember around that time, Beverly Hills 90210, and it was just… it was just atrocious. Every picture is accompanied with some testimony from the subject about his or her own life. Salinger gave her subjects the right to remove any statements that they’d be uncomfortable having appear in print, and they universally moved to strike the statements they’d made on one subject, namely, sex: It was about three years after I had taken the initial photographs, and you know what’s...
“I’m not a nostalgic person,” says Albuquerque-based photographer Adrienne Salinger, “I’m not wired that way.” She keeps a single copy of her book In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms, filled with images she made in the 1990s, but she doesn’t feel sentimental about it, even if the rest of the world does.
Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream. Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go … Continue reading "1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls"
In the 1980s a cousin’s bedroom was covered in pictures of Duran Duran. No. Not exactly. Rewind. Simon Le Bon was there by committee. It was more covered in jus
The '80s were filled with colorful designs and singular style. Discover '80s bedroom ideas to bring this retro vibe home.
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These exceptional movie posters come from the pre-Stalin days of the Soviet Union and before Soviet Realism took over typical graphic design. This period of avant-garde artistic freedom in the Soviet Union was relatively brief but for many some of these posters are perhaps the greatest ever created. These posters, many of them … Continue reading "Movie Posters of the Soviet Avant-Garde"
In the 1980s a cousin’s bedroom was covered in pictures of Duran Duran. No. Not exactly. Rewind. Simon Le Bon was there by committee. It was more covered in jus
Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream. Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go … Continue reading "1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls"
In the 1980s a cousin’s bedroom was covered in pictures of Duran Duran. No. Not exactly. Rewind. Simon Le Bon was there by committee. It was more covered in just one member of the four-strong band, bassist John Taylor, who before he circled the plughole of popular youth culture sometime between marrying posho TV presenter … Continue reading "1990s Teenagers and Their Bedrooms Walls"
Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream. Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go … Continue reading "1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls"