Lauren Greenfield

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Lauren Greenfield in 2013.

Lauren Greenfield (born June 28, 1966 in Boston ) is an American artist , documentary photographer and documentary filmmaker .

To date, she has published four photographic monographs , made four documentaries, produced four traveling exhibitions , and published them in magazines around the world.

Early life

Greenfield was born on June 28, 1966 in Boston ( Massachusetts ) to the psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield and the doctor Sheldon Greenfield. She has a younger brother, Matthew Greenfield.

Her thesis photo project on the French aristocracy was called "Survivors of the French Revolution".

Greenfield graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts with a focus on "Visual and Environmental Studies".

Career

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photography

Greenfield's thesis helped get an internship at National Geographic Magazine. A later grant from National Geographic provided financial support for her debut monograph "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood" (Knopf 1997). Five years after the publication of "Fast Forward", Greenfield produced a second major work on the self-esteem crisis among American women called "Girl Culture".

Greenfield's photographs have been and are regularly published in international publications including The New Yorker , New York , New York Times Magazine , Sunday Times Magazine , Stern , The Guardian , Der Spiegel , La Repubblica , Time , Vanity Fair , People , National Geographic , ELLE , Harper's , Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire .

Movie

Academic years

THIN (HBO)

Greenfield directed THIN , a feature-length documentary for HBO , and published a companion book of the same title. In September 2006, Greenfield received the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary Screened at the BFI London Film Festival. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Boston Independent Film Festival, the Newport International Film Festival and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. Greenfield was nominated for an Emmy for her work on THIN in 2007 for Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming .

kids + money

Greenfields kids + money is a 32-minute short film that contains interviews with teenagers from Los Angeles about money and how it affects their lives. The documentation was awarded various prizes.

HBO licensed the North American broadcast rights for kids + money and the film was distributed internationally.

Generation wealth

For Generation Wealth , Greenfield accompanied a wide variety of people for more than 25 years. The film deals with the desire to be rich at all costs and shows how the search for material goods and sexual capital in the world has developed over time.

Greenfield's film Generation Wealth was selected as the opening film of the Sundance Film Festival 2018 as part of the “Documentary Premiere” program. Nick Allen of "RogerEbert.com" wrote that the film was a stunningly deeply resonant documentary about notions as seemingly obvious as the value of love over wealth itself.

The film celebrated its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival . Other film festivals that screened the film are SXSW and CPH: DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival).

The film was distributed by Amazon Studios and released in US cinemas on July 20, 2018.

The companion book Generation Wealth , published by Phaidon in spring 2017 , received rave reviews and was voted “Photography Book of the Year” by Creative Review and the London Times .

Publications

Filmography (selection)

  • 2006: Thin (documentary)
  • 2008: Kids + Money (short documentary)
  • 2010: Fashion Show (short documentary)
  • 2012: The Queen of Versailles ( The Queen of Versailles , documentary)
  • 2012: Beauty CULTure (short documentary)
  • 2012: Best Night Ever (short documentary)
  • 2015: Bling Dynasty (TV documentary series)
  • 2015: Magic City (short documentary)
  • 2018: Generation Wealth (documentary)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lauren Greenfield Bibliography . Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  2. ^ Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University .
  3. ^ Survivors of the French Revolution, 1989 .
  4. ↑ Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, Knopf 1997 .
  5. ↑ Girl Culture, Chronicle Books 2002 .
  6. ↑ THIN directed by Lauren Greenfield .
  7. ↑ THIN, Chronicle Books 2006 . Archived from the original on November 21, 2008.
  8. ↑ The Grierson Trust - London Film Festival Grierson Award ( en )
  9. ↑ 59th Primetime Emmy Nominees Revealed . July 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
  10. ^ "Kids + money", Greenfield / Evers LLC 2008 . Archived from the original on December 25, 2012.
  11. ^ "It's the Economy, Dude: Lauren Greenfield Looks at Kidsumerism" in Documentary Magazine .
  12. ↑ Kids + Money on imdb .
  13. ^ "Kids + Money" on Vimeo on Demand .
  14. ↑ a b Generation Wealth (Phaidon 2017) . 
  15. ↑ 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Generation Wealth .
  16. ↑ 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films Announced .
  17. ↑ Nick Allen: Sundance 2018: Shirkers, Generation Wealth, Colette .
  18. ↑ Generation Wealth selected to screen at Berlinale 68 .
  19. ^ Generation Wealth to screen at SXSW in Austin .
  20. ↑ Generation Wealth (2018). Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  21. ↑ LAUREN GREENFIELD - GENERATION WEALTH. Retrieved on May 19, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Greenfield, Lauren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston