Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms

Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their BedroomsThe new edition of Salinger's ever relevant series of 1980s and '90s teenagers in their bedrooms. While specific objects of decor change over time, teenagers' bedrooms are still private sanctuaries: spaces for safely experimenting during a time in life when one is forming and expressing ever evolving identities. Long out of print and now considered a classic, with only a rare few available on the secondary market, the book returns in a new expanded

The new edition of Salinger's ever-relevant series of 1980s and '90s teenagers in their bedrooms. While specific objects of decor change over time, teenagers' bedrooms are still private sanctuaries: spaces for safely experimenting during a time in life when one is forming and expressing ever-evolving identities.

Long out of print and now considered a classic, with only a rare few available on the secondary market, the book returns in a new expanded edition, with 26 additional photographs.Upon its release in 1995, Adrienne Salinger's book 'In My Room' was an immediate success, selling nearly 24,000 copies in its first few years.

The continued popularity of this work made in the '80s and '90s is curious. However, over the nearly 30 years since, and especially in the most recent decade of social media, the work's appeal has grown tremendously. In some cases, the work evokes nostalgia, but not primarily so. Adrienne Salinger hears from current teenagers often; many send her pictures of their bedrooms today.

Social media encourages users to endlessly "rebrand" their identities, creating idealised fantasies, striving for perfection. These photographs are not about perfection. They give voice to the contradictions of our identities.Hundreds of print and online articles, interviews and features on 'In My Room' have been published and the work has been exhibited at museums all around the world.