Filled with compelling images from revered photographers of the past and present, this book sheds light on marginalised communities who have traditionally shied away from the cameras. Works by critically acclaimed photographers including Bruce Davidson, Paz Errazuriz, Jim Goldberg, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama, and Dayanita Singh cast a compassionate, unflinching eye on the worlds inhabited by transsexuals, hookers, hustlers, bikers, junkies, circus performers, gang members, survivalists, petty criminals, and others who live in the shadows, on the streets, and out of the public eye.
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie is a vivid photographic chronicle of American rail-riding subculture, capturing a life of movement, risk, and fleeting freedom. Beginning as a teenager who unexpectedly discovered train hopping in Florida, Brodie went on to document nomadic journeys across the United States using a second-hand 35mm camera. His portraits of fellow travellers carry an unexpected warmth and intimacy, balancing hardship with a quiet sense of camaraderie. Widely acclaimed upon publication, the work has been recognised as one of the defining photobooks of its time.
Eden is a Magic World is a story of obsession. The central figure of Calderón’s book is Flor Eduarda, a former child actress in her native Mexico. After Carrusel (the hugely successful telenovela she appeared in as an infant) began screening around the world, Eduarda started to receive letters from a besotted admirer, Choi Chun Moon, an 18 year old student based in Seoul, Korea.
Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood documents the experience of growing up in Los Angeles, and the ways children are influenced by the values of Hollywood. The quest for "fame," the preoccupation with trends, the culture of materialism, and the obsession with image that characterises Hollywood is reflected in the everyday lives and rituals of L.A. youth.
A book by London-based fashion photographer Valerie Phillips, in which she documents Swedish artist, photographer, model and online celebrity Arvida Byström, known for her colourful images, including countless self-portraits shared though social media and blogs.
In My Room: Teenagers in their Bedrooms, photographer Adrienne Salinger has been allowed to enter the private lives of forty-three teens. Her images, taken over a two-year period, offer an intimate glimpse into these intimate escapes and the adolescents who have made them their own.
Lost Dreams details the youth clubs of East London from 2005 to '07, these clubs provided the foundations for aspiring musicians some of whom are now well recognised in the grime scene and beyond. If you're at all familiar with Wheatley's previous book on the heydays of Grime, you'll know the depths of his access to the subject and his attention to detail photographically.
A collection of street photographs with interviews on the contents of the subjects’ bags. Photographs of the items and brief explanations of what they carry and what it says about them.
A tongue-in-cheek subcultural dictionary illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Divided into sections, this guide covers various subcultures’ slang and style. Sections include punk, nightclub culture, mod, cholo, rasta, and skateboarding scenes.
PYMCA (The Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive) is the first photographic archive dedicated to youth culture. Includes images documenting subcultures ranging from New Romantics at Taboo, to Punks at the Roxy in '77, Summer of Love ravers to Travellers, Protestors and festival goers – and all have been taken by people deeply embedded in the subcultures that they documented.
Between 1998 and 2010, Simon Wheatley photographed a train line that ran across London’s northern inner-suburbs. Initially intrigued by the social polarisation of neighbourhoods along the line, the story became a meandering one with seemingly no end - until the Kodachrome film with which I shot it was discontinued. The work has emerged into this book as a reflection of the emptiness of the Blair years, and a tacit indictment of rail privatisation.
Photographer Joseph Szabo's subject is adolescence; his rare gift is capturing the spirit of his students at Malverne High School, caught between puberty and the precipice of adulthood. Taken in the 70s and 80s, the photographs in Teenage represent a remarkable evocation of that period, and yet there is something timeless and endlessly compelling about Szabo's portrait of almost-adulthood.
128 duo-toned b&w plates of American teenagers in the early 1960's taken by Joseph Sterling, with an accompanying essay by David Travis.
A book of accidental streetstyle photos of women getting on buses or loitering around bus stops, spanning the sixties to the eighties – an unintended streetstyle book of gold.
Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years.