Rolling Stones Fans

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In 1978 as the school year drew to a close two of my high school students who had tickets to a Rolling Stones Concert approached me and asked if I would like to go with them to the concert. After discussing it with my wife Nancy, who thought it was a good idea and promising photo opportunity, I was enthusiastic to go for the experience. My students were delighted that I'd be joining them. Besides they needed me to drive us to Philadelphia from Long Island, New York. So off we went for whatever adventure might lay ahead. And I carefully packed my three 35mm cameras and plenty of b&w film to record the event. Recently, I was inspired to revisit the contact sheets from that one day and choose images that still spoke to me after so many years. Here are some of those photographs I took on June 17th at JFK Stadium surrounded by 90,000 Rolling Stones fans who were so open to my camera. One footnote...Bill and Chris, my two students, are still in touch and we are good friends to this day. I am forever grateful to them for our trip to that Rolling Stones Concert.

His photos capture joy, happiness, euphoria and youth while providing an insight into what it was like to be a young Stones fan in a carefree environment.--Benedict Browne "jocksandnerds.com" Like his subjects, the photographer was totally in the moment, and the energy and empathy he brings to it makes his images vibrate.--Vince Aletti "Photograph Magazine" Szabo presents the stadium as a microcosm of late-70s youth; conflicting attitudes, sexual awakenings, freedom and fear, laid bare for all to see. We observe exhibitionists performing to mini audiences; pockets of friends reveling in the euphoria and mayhem of rock; sultry figures loitering in picturesque postures; couples lounging in carefree embraces. There is an energy to the collection, and a soundtrack - rock and roll is a prominent motif. Rolling Stones Fans is where an eternally iconic and intangible mood, movement and music are united, all at once, in a tangible form.--Edwina Langley "Another Magazine" Szabo's work has always possessed that unlikely, unconscious quality...--Rebecca Bengal "vogue.com"