Education
Szabo studied photography at the Pratt Institute where he received his Master of Fine Arts.
Szabo studied photography at the Pratt Institute where he received his Master of Fine Arts.
He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island, New York from 1972 to 1999 and he continues to teach at the International Centre of Photography. Joseph Szabo is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and his work resides in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University, The International Centre of Photography and the Bibliothèque National in Paris, amongst others He is most notable for his photographs of American youth taken during the 1970s and collected in the books Almost Grown and His photograph "Priscilla" adorns the cover of alternative rock band Dinosaur Junior"s 1991 album Green Mind.