In the 1980s a cousin’s bedroom was covered in pictures of Duran Duran. No. Not exactly. Rewind. Simon Le Bon was there by committee. It was more covered in just one member of the four-strong band, bassist John Taylor, who before he circled the plughole of popular youth culture sometime between marrying posho TV presenter … Continue reading "1990s Teenagers and Their Bedrooms Walls"
An 80s teen bedroom has 15 must have items starting with 80s posters plastered all over the wall. Read on to find out the next 14.
Photographer Beth Yarnelle Edwards sees the suburbs as the 'physical embodiment of the American Dream.' Her images reveal aspiration and stability, but also the more mundane aspects of a suburban existence.
When you're lost out there and you're all alone, a light is waiting to carry you home. There is a magical house in San Fran that has enough room for everyone. Where will you live?
“Our bedrooms tell stories about us. They become the repository for memories, desire and self-image,” says American photographer Adrienne Salinger. Her series taken in the early 90s of teenagers and their bedrooms is an incredible insight and a glimpse into the past. “I was fascinated going into strangers’ homes and into people’s bedrooms, asking them about their lives and hearing their stories,” she says. “I was interested in the rich visual information showing the contradictions and ambivalence of coming of age.”
Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream. Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go … Continue reading "1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls"
Larry P. You can thank Aaron Spelling for Adrienne Salinger’s amusing and poignant images of mid-1990s teens hanging out in their bedrooms, which were collected in a 1995 book called In My Room. In a recent interview with Huck Magazine, she noted that I actually worked on that project for a long time. I started it on the West Coast, when I lived there, just out of frustration at the ways teenagers were being depicted. Because this was before the internet, this was before computers, and our reliance on television was huge. There weren’t a lot of outlets for people to represent themselves, especially young people. There was this TV show I remember around that time, Beverly Hills 90210, and it was just… it was just atrocious. Every picture is accompanied with some testimony from the subject about his or her own life. Salinger gave her subjects the right to remove any statements that they’d be uncomfortable having appear in print, and they universally moved to strike the statements they’d made on one subject, namely, sex: It was about three years after I had taken the initial photographs, and you know what’s...
Find Your Dream Home!
There is so much to see in these pictures from the room I had in a flat in London. And amazingly some of the stuff visible is still in use now! I've added loads of notes to identify some of the stuff.
