Author Archives: Kelly Rakowski
My Daguerreotype Teenager
April 20, 2012 — by
The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process that immortalized many types at the turn of the century. Here’s a collection of young students, posed stiff and smile-less for the camera in 1840. And if you don’t get the title reference check out My Daguerreotype Boyfriend—handsome young daguerreotypes.
Hot Wheels
April 19, 2012 — by
Before high school car culture, teens peddled their way to freedom. Here’s a cross section of California kids on wheels from turn of the 20th century to 1945, found in the Los Angeles Public Library. Above is Leela McAdam nee McCabe – winner of the best decorated bicycle for the 1900 Fourth of July parade in Lompoc, CA.
Teens Ponder Contemporary Art
April 17, 2012 — by
“A basketball will always be a basketball no matter what you do with it, because i don’t think there’s any other way to look at a basketball.”
Liverpool teens discuss Jeff Koons’ “Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank” at the Tate.
Good Rats
April 11, 2012 — by
Photographer and filmmaker Niall O’Brien spent three years on and off living alongside a group of young punks from South-West London. In that time he watched them grow from adolescents to young men. Exhibited at Art Work Space in London, 2010.
“There’s something beautiful about capturing the spontaneity of youth. It’s something everyone can relate to on some level, even if they can’t immediately identify with this mad group of punks..”
via Tell/You/Today
I’m Late
April 9, 2012 — by
Watch this pivotal Degrassi Junior High episode where Spike is late. That kind of late. Heartbreaking stuff. Degrassi, the Canadian 80s television classic, gets life as a teenager dead on.
When Spike’s period is late, she can hardly believe it – she never meant to go as far as she did with Shane. She is torn apart, not knowing what to tell Shane, or worse, her mother.
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