CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/28/2025

Photobook gold in 'Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms'

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.”