The problem facing the young, said Quentin Crisp, is always the same: ‘how to rebel and conform at the same time’. It’s this complex, contradictory framework of anxiety paired with abandonment, that outlines the complicated language of teenagers. Totems of both what we once were and what we could have been, is it any wonder that teens have proved creative catnip to artists and writers as varied as Larry Clark and Jane Austen, Kurt Cobain and J. D. Salinger?
Capturing the ephemeral…
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