The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola

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The photographer Joseph Szabo’s pictures in the new book “American Teen” look timeless in certain ways—the crisp black-and-white of the images, the stately framing, the instantly recognizable, casual but charged, proximity of teen-agers hanging out, arms slung over their friends’ shoulders, heads tipped together, close enough to smell one another’s shampoo. In 1973 he started teaching darkroom-photography classes at Malverne High. Szabo started taking pictures for the school yearbook and carrying a camera around the school with him all the time. “The kids would say, ‘That’s Szabo, don’t worry about him.

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