Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms

The sweetness and comedy of the images are often upset by the frankness of [the interviews]—which [touch] on drugs, abuse, racism, suicide. The juxtaposition serves as a reminder of the timeless plights of teenagerhood -- Angelina Torre * The Wall Street Journal *
A cult success. -- Georgina Elliot * The Financial Times *
[A] powerful, disarmingly revealing set of portraits of kids in their domains, their anxieties and obsessions pasted to their walls. -- Christopher Borrelli * The Chicago Tribune *
At once rebellious and tender, these intimate photographs capture the formative spaces where teens negotiate their identity. Now expanded with 26 new images, the book reflects on how teenage rooms – and sense of self – have evolved in the age of social media, while retaining the rawness that made the original series a classic. -- Harriett Lloyd-Smith * Wallpaper* *
In the days before smartphones, social media and ubiquitous games consoles, renowned US photographer Adrienne Salinger captured American teenagers in their bedrooms—warts, dirty laundry, and all. By today's Instagram-perfection standards, where images are curated down to the last pixel, these intimate pictures, now over 30 years old and reissued in a new book, speak of an age of innocence maybe lost forever. * The Telegraph *
With 'Teenagers in Their Bedrooms,' Salinger crafts incisive portraits that go beyond cliché tropes of teen life, subverting assumptions with every frame. Taken together, they foster a sense of the implicit web that interconnects us through the butterfly effect. -- Miss Rosen * Huck magazine *
Few spaces are as personal, revealing, or emotionally intense as a teenager's bedroom. It is the ultimate stage where identity is forged, rebellion is tested, imagination takes flight, and intimacy unfolds. In 'Teenagers in Their Bedrooms,' published by the New Mexico-based photography Adrienne Salinger, this transitional space childhood and adulthood is captured with extraordinary honesty, vulnerability, and artistic clarity. * CC Magazine *
From today’s vantage, it seems extraordinary that Salinger made this happen. -- Killian Fox * The Observer *
A cult success. -- Georgina Elliott * The Financial Times *
Adrienne Salinger’s ’90s art book is one of my prized possessions, and its recent re-issue captures in even greater depth how young Americans cultivated and communicated selfhood pre-smartphone. -- Greta Rainbow * Dwell *
Capturing the vibrancy of 80s and 90s teen America, 'Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in their Bedrooms' is a reissue of the photographer’s iconic 1995 collection that includes 26 unseen images. -- Zoe Whitfield * A Rabbit's Foot *
The photographs capture private sanctuaries. Surrounded by posters, books, accessories and clutter, the teenagers are poised between adulthood and vulnerability, in a mish-mash of taste, personality and comfort. -- Hannah Silver * Wallpaper* *
[The] series remains a timeless study on adolescent becoming. -- Tiarna Meehan * Dazed *
When it comes to photographing the secret lives of teenagers, all roads lead back to Adrienne Salinger. -- Orla Brennan * AnOther Magazine *
The images capture an inflection point between childhood and adolescence. -- Andrew Aoyama * The Atlantic *
The new edition confirms the collection’s status not merely as a beautifully constructed document of its time (a counterpart of sorts to Nan Goldin’s images of young denizens of downtown New York in the late seventies and early eighties) but as an enduring work that speaks to our own moment in new and suggestive ways. -- Rebecca Mead * The New Yorker *