A photo book featuring Syracuse teens in the ‘80s and ‘90s is making a comeback.
Adrienne Salinger’s “In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms,” originally published in 1995, shows portraits of adolescents and young adults taken over a two-year period. Like many selfies on social media today, it includes personal possessions, music posters, stuffed animals, fashion choices and private lives as art.
The New Yorker reports Salinger initially sold it as a paperback edition for less than $20 to make it affordable to the very people she was featuring. Its reputation grew over the years, though, and first-edition copies now can sell for hundreds of dollars…