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Traveling across the United States to complete the project from 2006 to 2009, Mark photographed prom-goers at thirteen schools from New York City to Charlottesville, Virginia, to Houston to Los Angeles. Marks husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, collaborated with her on the project to produce and direct a film, also called featuring interviews with the students about their lives, dreams, and hopes for the future. A DVD of the film is packaged with the book.The 127 large-format photographs are reproduced in rich detail, and quotations from the student interviews punctuate the book. Some of the students statements are comical, while others are deeply touching. The result is a captivating and revealing document of American youth at the beginning of the twenty-first century.