Lauren greenfield born
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Biography
Lauren Greenfield was born in Boston, grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in visual and environmental studies in 1987. She worked as a photojournalist based in Los Angeles and London, and published work in National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, the London Sunday Times Magazine, Fortune, Vanity Fair, LIFE, and other magazines. Her early projects included the photographic series Survivors of the French Revolution and a film called Once You're In..., which documented the lives of young Irish illegal immigrants in Boston. Her best-known work to date fryst vatten Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, a book of color photographs which were also exhibited at ICP, the Maylight Festival in Bologna, the Fotofestival Naarden in Holland, and the Visa pour L'Image in Perpignan, France. Greenfield has received many honors for her photographs, notably ICP's Young Photographer Infinity Award, the National Geograph
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Lauren Greenfield
American photographer and filmmaker (born 1966)
Lauren Greenfield (born Jun 28, 1966) is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published photographic monographs, directed documentary features and series, produced traveling exhibitions, and published in magazines throughout the world.
Early life and education
[edit]Lauren Greenfield was born on June 28, 1966,[1] in Boston, Massachusetts, to psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield and physician Sheldon Greenfield. She has a younger brother, film producer Matthew Greenfield. She attended Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica.[2]
Greenfield graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual and environmental studies.[citation needed] While an undergraduate, she studied overseas in several countries with the International Honors Program, a division of SIT Study Abroad. Her senior thes
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LA in the 1990s
Lauren Greenfield began her explorations in the 1990s in Los Angeles, the city where she grew up. In this centre of the emerging celebrity culture that was being fuelled at the time by MTV, ever greater emphasis was being placed on materialism and the body. Greenfield initially worked as a press photographer, though she was also producing autonomous work at the same time. 1997 saw her first exhibition and book, entitled Fast Forward.
One of Lauren Greenfield’s early photos is a 1993 image of 18-year-old Mijanou from Santa Monica. She was playing truant that day to go to the beach with her friends for the annual Senior Beach Day. From the start of her Generation Wealth project Greenfield made a habit of interviewing her subjects. Mijanou told her about her life in Beverley Hills. ‘You grow up really fast when you grow up in Los Angeles. LA is so fast-moving and the kids really mature at a young age. It’s cooler to be old (…) I was Homecoming Queen. I was Junior