The Youngest Parents: Teenage Pregnancy as it Shapes Lives: Exhibit photographs, 1987-1996

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies
Abstract:
John Moses, a professor of pediatrics at Duke University, spent eleven years documenting teenage parents in North Carolina counties, including Durham and Orange. Jocelyn Lee is a professor at the Maine College of Art and worked for six years in parts of Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Nova Scotia, living and working with young mothers. Collection of 24 gelatin silver prints from an exhibit, The Youngest Parents: Teenage Pregnancy as it Shapes Lives, displayed at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies in 1998.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet
24 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.01425

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of 24 black-and-white gelatin silver prints, dating from 1987-1996, and sized at either 11" x 14" or 16" x 20". Most of the photographs were taken by Jocelyn Lee in Maine or Texas. A small amount of photographs were taken by John Moses in North Carolina. No additional information or text accompanies the photographs.

Biographical / historical:

John Moses, photography instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and a practicing pediatrician, spent eleven years documenting teenage parents in North Carolina counties. Jocelyn Lee, a photography professor at Princeton University, spent six years in parts of Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Nova Scotia, living and working with young mothers. Friendships of support and caring developed between the photographers and the teens, and the trust resulting from these relationships deepened the character and meaning of their work. The Youngest Parents exhibition of twenty-five black-and-white photographs taken from 1986 to the present day included follow-up photographs of the young parents, now adults, and their children, now teens and young adults themselves. The exhibit also included text panels with young mothers’ candid reflections.

This exhibit was displayed by the Center for Documentary Studies from May 28 through September 19, 1998.

Acquisition information:
The Youngest Parents: Teenage Pregnancy as it Shapes Lives Exhibit Photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2011.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, April 2011

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, April 2011

Accession 2011-0056 is described in this finding aid.

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[Identification of item], The Youngest Parents: Teenage Pregnancy as it Shapes Lives Exhibit Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.