In the years that followed the birth of the “teenager” in 1945, British and American adults had no choice but to come to terms with the cultural and economic power of this new group.
How To Be a Mid-Century British Teen
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Donyale Luna, First Black Supermodel
Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world.
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Orson Welles, Most Precocious Teen Ever
Orson Welles made his first short film, Hearts of Age when he was just 19 years old.
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Remembering Macaulay
Remember Macaulay Culkin? Not the Macaulay of the “WE FORGOT KEVIN!!!”
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Hannie Schaft, Resistance Fighter
Hannie Schaft was a resistance fighter of the Raad Van Verzet, which was closely tied to the Communist Party of the Netherlands.
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Cleveland Rocks and Rolls
Tonight Teenage makes its Cleveland debut with a sneak preview screening hosted by Bellwether, a project of the Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Youth of Australia
Teenage is making its Australian premiere this week with three screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Japanese Flash Mob!
One of my favorite films, Sans Soleil (by the late, great film essayist Chris Maker), features the surreal Japanese dance culture of takenoko-zoku.
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Ilse Bing, Leica Queen
Ilse Bing, known as “The Queen of Leica” was an avant-garde photographer and pioneer of monochrome images, born in 1899 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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High School Hippies
We often hear talk about how popular culture today is so self-referential and self-cannibalizing that it’s impossible to tell where nostalgia ends and creativity begins.