Jerrems also photographed the music scenes in Melbourne and Sydney, and perhaps in the US. And she photographed her own milieu and life (eg après-sex-mornings-in-bed); so the drop-outs weren’t her only focus [cough]. Did she knock off [euphemism] any of those under-age lads? Unknown to me. It would have been an offence then, and still is in this country.
And just as well: there is still a music scene and people still have sex and wake up in the morning in someone's else bed.
Obviously, but what’s your point? There are differences between then and now, one of them being that Jerrems isn’t here to blaze away with her Nikon; what would she think of the self-obsession that Facebook brings to the psychological table?
And selfies has taken over the universe!
My point is that it is probably not the "scene" which changed, but the way we relate to it. It would probably still be possible today to take the kind of pictures Carol Jerrems took at the time, but nobody is doing that any more. Or, more precisely, some photographers still take pictures of highschool dropouts and alternative music scenes, but our relationship to these pictures as viewers is completely different.
I am not trying to prove anything, I am just wondering what changed exactly. It seems obvious that sexuality permeates Carol Jerrems pictures, so I suspect that part of it is that our relation to sexuality is different. Why it is different and what it changes, I don't know.
As to selfies: Carol Jerrems took many self-portraits, this is why the movie is called "Girl in the mirror". And I don't think the taste for selfies has changed much: in the 60's, people used a tripod to photography themselves in front of the Eiffel tower, nowadays they put their iPhone on a selfie stick to do just the same. Selfies have a long tradition: Julia Margaret Cameron took quite a few, for example. Come to think of it, I think that self-portraits are more common for women and couples than for men, so maybe it also has something to do with sexual roles.
Another quick point: I think that Carol Jerrems used a Pentax, not a Nikon.