Lauren Greenfield

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Lauren Greenfield
Born 1966
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Occupation Documentary Artist
Official website

Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three monographs of her photographic work, directed four documentary films, exhibited her photographic prints in museums throughout the world, and had her work published in a variety of leading magazines and other publications around the world[1]. Her photographic work and films generally deals with issues relating to the influence of popular culture on how we live (youth culture, gender identity, body image, eating disorders, media, wealth, fashion, beauty, and consumerism).

In the May/June 2003 issue of American PHOTO Magazine, she was named one of the "The 25 Most Important Photographers Now". In April 2005, she shared the third spot of the "100 Most Important People in Photography", again in American Photo Magazine.[2]

In March 2009, she was chosen to be a Featured Photographer[3] (alongside Julius Shulman, Tim Street-Porter, Douglas Kirkland, Greg Gorman, Carolyn Cole, Catherine Opie and John Baldessari) in the inaugural exhibition at The Annenberg Space for Photography, “L8S ANG3LES”.[4]

From June to November 2010, a collection of her photographic work from "Fast Forward" and "Girl Culture" was prominently featured in "Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties", a record-breaking photographic photographic exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which was curated by Brett Abbott.[5] Her work was exhibited alongside similarly curated collections by Leonard Freed (Black in White America), Philip Jones Griffiths (Vietnam Inc.), W. Eugene Smith (Minamata), Susan Meiselas (Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979), Mary Ellen Mark (Streetwise), Larry Towell (The Mennonites), Sebastião Salgado (Migrations), and James Nachtwey ("The Sacrifice").[6] In October 2010, the exhibition received the Lucie Award for Curator(Brett Abbott)/Exhibition of the Year[7].

In May 2011, Lauren received the unique honor of being the only photographic artist chosen twice to be a Featured Artist at The Annenberg Space for Photography, as part of its exhibition, "Beauty CULTure" (Los Angeles, May 21st - November 26th, 2011), as one of only four Featured Photographers[8] (alongside Melvin Sokolsky, Albert Watson, and Tyen).[9] In addition to being highlighted as a Featured Artist with prints of her work appearing in the exhibition, Lauren was commissioned by The Annenberg Space for Photography to direct a 30 minute documentary film about the subject of the exhibition. The resultant film forms the centerpiece of the exhibition[10]. As of June 2011, attendance by the public to the "Beauty CULTure" exhibition has smashed all previous records.[11] In October 2011, the exhibition received the Lucie Award for Curator(Kohle Yohannan)/Exhibition of the Year[12].

Greenfield graduated from Harvard in 1987 with a B.A., majoring in Visual Environmental Studies. Her Senior Thesis project on the French Aristocracy was called "Survivors of the French Revolution".[13] This work helped kickstart her career as an intern for National Geographic Magazine. A subsequent grant from National Geographic helped her with her debut monograph, "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood" (Knopf 1997).[14] Five years after the release of "Fast Forward", Greenfield produced a second tour-de-force project about the self-esteem crisis amongst American women, entitled "Girl Culture",[15] which has been reprinted five times and sold 20K copies. Alongside her books, "Fast Forward","Girl Culture", and "THIN", Greenfield produced three large-scale traveling exhibitions with the same names, which have been seen by more than a million viewers in museums around the world.

Her photography, including entire bodies of work like "Girl Culture" and "Fast Forward", is in many major collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the International Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Harvard University Archive, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Clinton Library, and the French Ministry of Culture. She is represented by the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York, the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco.

Since starting her career in 1991, her photographs have been regularly published in magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, People, National Geographic, Stern, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, ELLE, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, The Guardian, and The Sunday Times Magazine. She has received many photography awards and grants, including the Art Directors Club Gold Cube for Photography[16], National Geographic Grant, the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer (1996), a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, the NPPA Community Awareness Award, and the People's Choice Award at the Moscow Biennial.

FILMOGRAPHY

Ms. Greenfield's latest documentary feature film, entitled "The Queen of Versailles", is scheduled for release in 2012.[17] "The Queen of Versailles" has been selected for the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 (The world premieres of 16 American documentary films)[18]. "The Queen of Versailles" has been further honored by being selected to be the opening night documentary film for the Sundance Film Festival[19].

In February 2011, Lauren was commissioned by the Annenberg Space for Photography to direct a short documentary film, "Beauty CULTure", to make up the central focus of this record-setting[20] "Beauty CULTure" exhibition (May - November 2011).[21] Shot in Paris, New York and Los Angeles, this 30 minute film is a critical examination of "...beauty in popular culture, the narrowing definition of beauty in contemporary society, and the influence of media messages on the female body image".[22]

Greenfield's follow-up short film, "kids + money",[23] was selected as one of the top five nonfiction shorts in the world by Cinema Eye Honors 2009.[24] The short also won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the AFI Film Festival 2007, the Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Gold Plaque, Documentary:Social/Political from The Hugo Television Awards 2008, and Best Documentary Short at Kids First Film Festival 2008. "kids + money" was also selected into the Official Shorts Program at the Sundance Film Festival (January 2008). The 32 minute film includes interviews with Los Angeles teenagers on the subject of money and how it affects their lives. HBO licensed North American broadcast rights to "kids + money", and the film has been distributed to major broadcasters and cable networks internationally.

Ms. Greenfield has also directed a feature-length documentary for HBO entitled THIN (see Thin (film)),[25] and has published an accompanying book with the same title.[26] This feature documentary film was selected for the Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. In September 2006, Greenfield received the prestigious John Grierson Award for director of the best feature-length documentary at the London Film Festival 2006. This film also picked up the Grand Jury Prize at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. She also received an 2007 EMMY nomination for Best Director of Non-Fiction programming for the film, THIN (see Thin (film)).[27]

In addition to feature and short length video, Greenfield has also produced a number of documentary shorts and multimedia pieces. Notable amongst these are:

  • "Become" (2011) a series of documentary shorts[28]
  • "Fashion Show" (2010) multimedia with photo, video and audio[29]
  • "Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream" (2009) - multimedia with photo, video and audio[30]
  • "Ben Gals" (2008) - multimedia with photo and audio
  • "Teen Spa" (2007) - multimedia with photo and audio
  • "Jackie Warner" (2007) - multimedia with photo, video and audio
  • "Teen Lipo" (2006) - multimedia with photo and audio

Ms. Greenfield is represented by Chelsea Pictures, Stockland Martel,[31] and Institute (IAM) (INSTITUTE for Artist Management).[32] She was a member of the VII Photo Agency from 2002 to 2009. She is married to Frank Evers (Founder/CEO, INSTITUTE and the Co-Founder of the New York Photo Festival),[33] with whom she has two sons, and they reside in Venice, California.

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[edit] Bibliography

  • THIN (Chronicle Books, 2006)
  • Girl Culture (Chronicle Books, 2002)
  • Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood (Hard cover Knopf, 1997; soft cover Chronicle Books 2002)

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Lauren Greenfield Bibliography". http://laurengreenfield.com/index.php?p=6114J014. Retrieved 2006-11-19. 
  2. ^ "The 100 Most Important People in Photography, 2005". May/June 2005. http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/2641/the-100-most-important-people-in-photography-2005-the-list-1-50-page2.html. Retrieved 2006-11-19. [dead link]
  3. ^ "Video Interviews for Annenberg's “L8S ANG3LES”". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/voice.asp. 
  4. ^ "“L8S ANG3LES” at Annenberg Center for Photography, March 2009". http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/news/news_show.htm?doc_id=810266&tsproject_id=703991. 
  5. ^ "Getty exhibition smashes all-time attendance record". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/10/getty-museums-photography-exhibition-wins-lucie-awards-draws-record-crowds.html. 
  6. ^ "Engaged Observers: Independent Photojournalism 1962–2007". http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/past.html. 
  7. ^ "Lucie Awards 2010". http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/10/getty-museums-photography-exhibition-wins-lucie-awards-draws-record-crowds.html. 
  8. ^ "Video Interviews for Annenberg's "Beauty CULTure"". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/voice.asp. 
  9. ^ "Annenberg Space for Photography's "Beauty CULTure" (May 21st - November 26th, 2011)". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/exhibit-categories.asp. 
  10. ^ "Trailer for Lauren Greenfield's "Bueuty CULTure"". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/voice.asp. 
  11. ^ "Record-breaking attendance figures for BEAUTY CULTURE". http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-annenberg-space-for-photography-extends-saturday-hours-124356028.html. 
  12. ^ "Lucie Awards 2011". http://lucieawards.com/awards.html. 
  13. ^ "Survivors of the French Revolution, 1989". http://laurengreenfield.com/index.php?p=HGQ3SA3R. 
  14. ^ "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, Knopf 1997". http://laurengreenfield.com/index.php?p=XX8NXVSA. 
  15. ^ "Girl Culture, Chronicle Books 2002". http://laurengreenfield.com/index.php?p=9R2AJPO2. 
  16. ^ "Lauren Greenfield awarded Art Directors Club Gold Cube for Photography". http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/press/?id=113. 
  17. ^ "Lauren Greenfield's new documentary film". http://filmmakermagazine.com/news/2010/08/150-films-slated-for-ifps-project-forum/. 
  18. ^ ""The Queen of Versailles" is selected by Sundance Film Festival 2012". http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/120034/the_queen_of_versailles/. 
  19. ^ ""The Queen of Versailles" is Opening Night film for the Sundance Film Festival 2012". http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/120034/the_queen_of_versailles/. 
  20. ^ ""Beauty CULTure" smashes all-time attendence records for Annenberg Space for Photography". http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-annenberg-space-for-photography-extends-saturday-hours-124356028.html. 
  21. ^ "Featured Artist, "Beauty CULTure", Annenberg Space for Photography 2011". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/exhibit-categories.asp. 
  22. ^ ""Beauty CULTure", Evergreen Pictures 2011". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/pdf/Beauty_culture_film_release.pdf. 
  23. ^ ""kids + money", Greenfield/Evers LLC 2008". http://kidsandmoney.tv. 
  24. ^ "Cinema Eye Honors 2009". http://www.cinemaeyehonors.com/nominees/honored-shorts. 
  25. ^ "THIN directed by Lauren Greenifeld". http://www.laurengreenfield.com/?p=Y6QZZ990. 
  26. ^ "THIN, Chronicle Books 2006". http://thindocumentary.com. 
  27. ^ "59th Primetime Emmy Nominees Revealed". July 2007. http://www.emmys.tv. Retrieved 2007-07-21. 
  28. ^ ""BECOME" documentary shorts directed by Lauren Greenfield for Gatorade (Evergreen Pictures 2011)". http://vimeo.com/28384440. 
  29. ^ ""Fashion Show", directed by Lauren Greenfield (Evergreen Pictures 2010)". http://vimeo.com/9417665. 
  30. ^ ""Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream" directed by Lauren Greenfield (Evergreen Pictures 2009)". http://vimeo.com/9055532. 
  31. ^ "Stockland Martel photo agency". http://stocklandmartel.com. 
  32. ^ "INSTITUTE for Artist Management". http://features.instituteartistmanagement.com/laurengreenfield.html. 
  33. ^ "Marriage Announcement, New York Times". The New York Times. 1992-05-11. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/11/style/lauren-greenfield-francis-evers.html?scp=1&sq=%22lauren%20greenfield%22&st=nyt. Retrieved 2010-05-07. 
  34. ^ "Beauty CULTure trailer". http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/exhibitions/voice.asp. 

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