Photos exploring growing up as a British teenager:
“Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?” asked John O’Neill in 1977, penning lyrics that would secure The Undertones fame the following year, and provide generations of amped-up adolescents an anthem all of their own. With, which recently opened at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, the Museum of Youth Culture considers similar territory, celebrating the lives of teenagers from the 1920s through to today, examining what it means to be a teenager and what their impact on culture is.
. “Everyone’s been young, so everyone can be part of this museum,” says der Weduwe. “Before this point our collections started in the 1950s, looking at post-war youth culture, but throughwe got our first photographs from the 1920s – the oldest we have now is 1901 – and they don’t look out of place in our collection. They fit.”
“There’s quotes from Greek philosophers complaining about young people being rude and disrespectful,” she continues, “so those photographs really prove we can go back, that there’s an undercurrent to youth culture – even though we didn’t have the word ‘teenager’, there was still something going on.
While photography forms the bulk of the show’s offering, objects and other ephemera also feature – there’s even a Royal Enfield Constellation motorcycle – with immersive spaces portraying bedrooms and first jobs too, much of it sourced from the general public. “In a way [the lockdowns] enabled us to reach more people than we could have done travelling across the UK,” says der Weduwe, reflecting on how Covid-19 shaped the final exhibition.
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