Portrait of a Generation documents a fleeting moment when youth culture rallied around collective euphoria. In 1996, German photographer Alfred Steffen captured the ravers, dancers and outsiders who transformed the city’s streets into a utopia of sound, sweat and shared idealism at Berlin’s Love Parade. One of the biggest parties in the world, the Love Parade was an electronic dance music festival that originated in 1989 and grew to be attended by 750,000 techno fans. This book gathers 140 of the best images Steffen recorded of more than 250 ravers during a marathon 36 hour photo session in a roadside studio, capturing sunburned faces, dilated pupils, handmade outfits and exhausted smiles. Shot at close range and free of editorial gloss, the portraits carry the immediacy of images made between bass drops, with the series standing as a historical marker of rave culture before its commercialisation.