Preface by Adrienne Salinger. Introduction by Tobias Wolff. Afterword by Sara Lippmann.
The new edition of Salinger’s ever-relevant series of 1980s and ’90s teenagers in their bedrooms
Bedrooms contain the past, the present and the future; they are sites of continual transformation. Popular culture and fashion continually change and recycle. While specific objects of decor change over time, teenagers' bedrooms are still private sanctuaries: spaces for safely experimenting during a time in life when one is forming and expressing ever-evolving identities. Upon its release in 1995, Adrienne Salinger's book In My Room was an immediate success, selling nearly 24,000 copies in its first few years. The continued popularity of this work made in the '80s and '90s is curious. However, over the nearly 30 years since, and especially in the most recent decade of social media, the work's appeal has grown tremendously. In some cases, the work evokes nostalgia, but not primarily so. Adrienne Salinger hears from current teenagers often; many send her pictures of their bedrooms today. Social media encourages users to endlessly "rebrand" their identities, creating idealized fantasies, striving for perfection. These photographs are not about perfection. They give voice to the contradictions of our identities. Hundreds of print and online articles, interviews and features on In My Room have been published and the work has been exhibited at museums all around the world. Long out of print and now considered a classic, with only a rare few available on the secondary market, the book returns in a new expanded edition as Teenagers in Their Bedrooms. With 26 additional photographs, this treasure is made available once more to new audiences. Adrienne Salinger has published three photobooks: In My Room (1995), Living Solo (1999) and Middle Aged Men (2007). She is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms.'
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
The New Yorker
Rebecca Mead
The new edition confirms the collection’s status not merely as a beautifully constructed document of its time (a counterpart of sorts to Nan Goldin’s images of young denizens of downtown New York in the late seventies and early eighties) but as an enduring work that speaks to our own moment in new and suggestive ways.
The Atlantic
Andrew Aoyama
The images capture an inflection point between childhood and adolescence.
AnOther Magazine
Orla Brennan
When it comes to photographing the secret lives of teenagers, all roads lead back to Adrienne Salinger.
Dazed
Tiarna Meehan
[The] series remains a timeless study on adolescent becoming.
Wallpaper*
Hannah Silver
The photographs capture private sanctuaries. Surrounded by posters, books, accessories and clutter, the teenagers are poised between adulthood and vulnerability, in a mish-mash of taste, personality and comfort.
A Rabbit's Foot
Zoe Whitfield
Capturing the vibrancy of 80s and 90s teen America, 'Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in their Bedrooms' is a reissue of the photographer’s iconic 1995 collection that includes 26 unseen images.
Dwell
Greta Rainbow
Adrienne Salinger’s ’90s art book is one of my prized possessions, and its recent re-issue captures in even greater depth how young Americans cultivated and communicated selfhood pre-smartphone.
The Financial Times
Georgina Elliott
A cult success.
The Observer
Killian Fox
From today’s vantage, it seems extraordinary that Salinger made this happen.
CC Magazine
Few spaces are as personal, revealing, or emotionally intense as a teenager's bedroom. It is the ultimate stage where identity is forged, rebellion is tested, imagination takes flight, and intimacy unfolds. In 'Teenagers in Their Bedrooms,' published by the New Mexico-based photography Adrienne Salinger, this transitional space childhood and adulthood is captured with extraordinary honesty, vulnerability, and artistic clarity.
Huck magazine
Miss Rosen
With 'Teenagers in Their Bedrooms,' Salinger crafts incisive portraits that go beyond cliché tropes of teen life, subverting assumptions with every frame. Taken together, they foster a sense of the implicit web that interconnects us through the butterfly effect.
The Telegraph
In the days before smartphones, social media and ubiquitous games consoles, renowned US photographer Adrienne Salinger captured American teenagers in their bedrooms—warts, dirty laundry, and all. By today's Instagram-perfection standards, where images are curated down to the last pixel, these intimate pictures, now over 30 years old and reissued in a new book, speak of an age of innocence maybe lost forever.
Wallpaper*
Harriett Lloyd-Smith
At once rebellious and tender, these intimate photographs capture the formative spaces where teens negotiate their identity. Now expanded with 26 new images, the book reflects on how teenage rooms – and sense of self – have evolved in the age of social media, while retaining the rawness that made the original series a classic.
The Chicago Tribune
Christopher Borrelli
[A] powerful, disarmingly revealing set of portraits of kids in their domains, their anxieties and obsessions pasted to their walls.
The Financial Times
Georgina Elliot
A cult success.
The Wall Street Journal
Angelina Torre
The sweetness and comedy of the images are often upset by the frankness of [the interviews]—which [touch] on drugs, abuse, racism, suicide. The juxtaposition serves as a reminder of the timeless plights of teenagerhood
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Titled Donna D., 16, Syracuse, New York, this 1990 photograph is reproduced from new release Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms, perhaps a perfect photobook, and one that D.A.P. is proud to have published. A new, expanded edition of the 1995 classic In My Room, this 144-page hardcover contains 26 new photographs among the 68 reproductions, texts by Salinger, Tobias Wolff and Sara Lippmann, and edits of Salinger’s essential verbatim transcripts of the video conversations she conducted with the teenagers she shot, throughout the country, in their deliberately untidied bedrooms, surrounded by their most essential and telling things, during the extremely photogenic 1980s and 1990s—before social media changed everything. In a recent New Yorker feature, Rebecca Mead writes, “The new edition confirms the collection’s status not merely as a beautifully constructed document of its time (a counterpart of sorts to Nan Goldin’s images of young denizens of downtown New York in the late seventies and early eighties) but as an enduring work that speaks to our own moment in new and suggestive ways.” continue to blog
Published by D.A.P.. Preface by Adrienne Salinger. Introduction by Tobias Wolff. Afterword by Sara Lippmann.
The new edition of Salinger’s ever-relevant series of 1980s and ’90s teenagers in their bedrooms
Bedrooms contain the past, the present and the future; they are sites of continual transformation. Popular culture and fashion continually change and recycle. While specific objects of decor change over time, teenagers' bedrooms are still private sanctuaries: spaces for safely experimenting during a time in life when one is forming and expressing ever-evolving identities.
Upon its release in 1995, Adrienne Salinger's book In My Room was an immediate success, selling nearly 24,000 copies in its first few years. The continued popularity of this work made in the '80s and '90s is curious. However, over the nearly 30 years since, and especially in the most recent decade of social media, the work's appeal has grown tremendously. In some cases, the work evokes nostalgia, but not primarily so. Adrienne Salinger hears from current teenagers often; many send her pictures of their bedrooms today. Social media encourages users to endlessly "rebrand" their identities, creating idealized fantasies, striving for perfection. These photographs are not about perfection. They give voice to the contradictions of our identities.
Hundreds of print and online articles, interviews and features on In My Room have been published and the work has been exhibited at museums all around the world. Long out of print and now considered a classic, with only a rare few available on the secondary market, the book returns in a new expanded edition as Teenagers in Their Bedrooms. With 26 additional photographs, this treasure is made available once more to new audiences.
Adrienne Salinger has published three photobooks: In My Room (1995), Living Solo (1999) and Middle Aged Men (2007). She is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico.
