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American Youth

From debutantes and strippers to delinquents and soldiers, photographers at Redux Pictures captured the millennial generation vividly for their new book, American Youth. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

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Michael Rubenstein / Redux
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Young women text, drink, and smoke at a bar in Portland, Oregon.

Michael Rubenstein / Redux
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Young debutantes are presented at Bal des Berceaux, a high-society charity event at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.

Mark Peterson / Redux
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Crista, Phil, and Easton Kangas in their kitchen in Longview, Washington.

Michael Rubenstein / Redux
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Gay, lesbian and transgendered youth in San Francisco.

Erin Siegal / Redux
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The entrance of Taryn Davis' house, the 24 year-old founder of the American Widow Project, a support organization for the new generation of war widows. Her late husband's Iraq war boots sit permanently near the entrance.

Gina LeVay / Redux
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Members of the Cobra gang at the Window Rock Jail on the Navajo Nation.

Darcy Padilla / Redux
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Stormy, a dancer at the Devil's Point strip club counts her money, Portland, Oregon.

Michael Rubensteidn / Redux
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Kids watch the sunset in the desert near Mesa, Arizona.

Erika Larsen / Redux
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Garrett Steele pulls his canoe filled with clam baskets in Deer Isle, Maine.

Peter Frank Edwards / Redux
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Marvin McDowell, at the North Avenue Gym in West Baltimore, Maryland.

Marc Asnin / Redux
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Portrait of Seattle Seahawk cheerleader Tessa at her home in Renton, Washington.

John Keatley / Redux
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Javanda Williams, 18, a senior at Norview High School in Virginia gets ready for her senior prom, which she will attend with her boyfriend.

Mark Peterson / Redux
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Sergeant Gary Rojas shoots at a sniper's position with a M240B machine gun in the Tahrir combat outpost just south of Baquba, Diyala province, Iraq.

Eros Hoagland / Redux
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American Youth
By Redux Pictures
240 pages. Contrasto. $39.

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