Fred Grimm has written an incredible illustrated book on the history of German youth that’s a major inspiration for us,“Wir Wollen Eine Andere Welt” (We Want Another World: Youth in Germany 1900 – 2010).
We Want Another World
Series: Teen Reads
What were your favorite books and magazines when you were a teenager? Here are some of ours.
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Kevin Killian Presents: The More the Merrier
THE MORE THE MERRIER: LENORA MATTINGLY WEBER’S BEANY MALONE NOVELS
When the internet was new I did all the things everyone did with it, got hooked, sold my soul to eBay, downloaded enough porn to make a string of flesh all around the world, located all my old high school classmates and found myself an internet boyfriend in the former Soviet Union.
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Raised by Wolves
Jim Goldberg spent six years following homeless teens in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Founder of Tiger Beat, R.I.P.
Charles Laufer was working as a high school teacher when he noticed that teenage girls didn’t have anything entertaining to read.
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Seventeen Girl Days
In 1995, at age 17, Hiromix won the Canon Grand Prize for new photographers, nominated by world renowned photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.
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Slags and Scrubbers
The book Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain presents diagrams and equations to explain various subcultures of the ’50s and ’60s.
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Mark Morrisroe’s Dirt
An incredible retrospective of the seminal photographer Mark Morrisroe is currently on view at Artists Space in New York.
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Jon Savage Presents: Fave Fiction
I have a vivid memory of lying in the sun during summer 1970—when I was 16/17—listening to Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die and reading Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy.
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Puff Puff
Ed Templeton’s award winning photography book Teenage Smokers is for sale ($$$) via eBay.