For six months of the 2012/2013 school year, photographer Aaron Wojack captured a small slice of the New York City high school experience in a series called “Blowing Minds”.
“Blowing Minds” at a High School in Lower Manhattan
Posts Tagged: High School
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Gotta Coppa Poppa: Sub-Deb Clubs in the 1940s
In 1945, a new social group for teenage girls, the “Sub-Deb Club,” exploded in popularity, especially in the midwest.
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Tomorrow’s Defenders of Liberty
The Victory Corps was an educational program for teenagers that ran from 1942-44, training high schoolers to become “tomorrow’s defenders of liberty.”
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20th Anniversary of Dazed and Confused
Richard Linklater’s seminal high school comedy, Dazed and Confused, turns 20 on September 24th!
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Jones Valley High School of Birmingham, 1925-1974
Today Teenage is screening in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sidewalk Film Festival, so we’re celebrating Birmingham teens.
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Wiseman on Paul Simon and Mescaline
In 1968, an English teacher, no doubt in an attempt at relevancy, uses Simon and Garfunkel to “teach” her class about poetry.
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Strong Men
Spot the weight lifters of Ritzville High School in small town Ritzville, Washingonton.
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Footballers, 1938
Portrait of the footballer as a young man.
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Kids And Money
httpv://youtu.be/ZBJxYKYVSOE
In 2007, filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield interviewed Los Angeles teenagers about money for the New York Times.
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German Jewish Teens, 1961
Photographs by Leonard Freed of Jewish youths in Dusseldorf, Germany, 1961.