"Hey Fox" (1970), a photograph by Joseph Szabo, is part of "Coming of Age in America: The Photographs of Joseph Szabo," at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, Jan. 14 to March 25, 2012.
Growing up on LI: Photos by Szabo
Being a teenager on Long Island is often synonymous with time spent in parking lots, on street corners, at house parties and on the beach. A new exhibition, "Coming of Age in America: The Photography of Joseph Szabo," which opens at the Heckscher Museum of Art on Saturday, catalogs and celebrates the ungainly world of the suburban adolescent. Szabo's images, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, capture a time and place that is both incredibly specific in hairstyle and dress, yet utterly universal in emotion. He portrays a time that straddles the inexperience of childhood and the desires and dangers of adulthood, making for iconic moments familiar to anyone who has ever walked a high school hall. -- Kelly McMasters, Special to Newsday
