Lauren Greenfield Biography
Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published four photographic monographs, directed four documentary features, produced four traveling exhibitions, and published in magazines throughout the world.
Lauren Greenfield Age
Lauren was born on June 28, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts. Lauren is 53 years old as of 2019.
Lauren Greenfield Education
Greenfield graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a B.A., majoring in Visual and Environmental Studies. Her senior thesis photography project on the French aristocracy was called “Survivors of the French Revolution.
Lauren Greenfield Husband – Kids
Greenfield is married to Frank Evers, with whom she has two sons, Noah and Gabriel. They reside in Venice, California. Her stepmother, Sherrie H. Kaplan, is a senior scientist at the New England Medical Center.
Lauren Greenfield Generation Wealth
Generation Wealth is a multi-platform project that Lauren has been working on since 2008, and was released in 2017 as a museum exhibition, a photographic monograph, and a documentary film.
Greenfield’s “Generation Wealth” is an extraordinary visual history of our growing obsession with wealth. Weaving two and a half decades of work into an epic narrative, Greenfield has createdrevelatory cultural documentation of wealth for viewers to explore through a retrospective film, book, and exhibition.
Through riveting first-person interviews, Greenfield’s journey starts in Los Angeles and spreads across America and beyond, as she documents how we export the values of materialism, celebrity culture, and social status to every corner of the globe. We embark on this journey with Greenfield as she travels the world – from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China – bearing witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and documenting its complicated consequences.
We hear the stories of students, single parents, and families overwhelmed by crushing debt, yet determined to purchase luxury houses, cars, and clothing. We visit the homes and observe the rituals of the international elite—from Bel-Air to Monaco, Russia to China. We gain intimate access into the lives of those that rose to extraordinary wealth and then lost “big” during the global economic crash of 2008.
And we encounter the A-list celebrities we follow on reality TV and social media, the same influencers who shape our consumer desires and sense of self. Provoking serious reflection, “Generation Wealth” is not about the rich, but about the desire to be wealthy, at any cost.
Lauren Greenfield Net worth
Her net worth is under review.
Lauren Greenfield Height
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Lauren Greenfield Family
Greenfield was born in Boston, Massachusetts to psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield and physician Sheldon Greenfield. She has a younger brother, Matthew Greenfield.
Lauren Greenfield Books
Lauren Greenfield Photography
Greenfield’s undergraduate thesis helped kick begin her profession as an intern for National Geographic Magazine. A subsequent grant from National Geographic provided financial help towards her debut monograph, “Quick Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood” (Knopf 1997). Five years after the arrival of “Quick Forward”, Greenfield delivered a moment real collection of work about the confidence emergency among American ladies, entitled “Young lady Culture”.
Lauren Greenfield THIN (HBO)
Greenfield in this manner coordinated THIN, a full-length narrative for HBO, and distributed a going with a book with a similar title. Slim was chosen for rivalry at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. In September 2006, Greenfield got the renowned Grierson Award for best narrative that appeared at the BFI London Film Festival.
It likewise won the Grand Jury Prize at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. Greenfield got a 2007 Emmy selection for Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming for her work on THIN.
Lauren Greenfield kids+money
Greenfield’s follow-up short film, “kids + money”, was selected as one of the top five nonfiction shorts in the world by Cinema Eye Honors 2009. 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 internationally.
Lauren Greenfield The Queen of Versailles
In January 2012 Greenfield got the Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Award, US Documentary 2012 for her narrative component movie, entitled The Queen of Versailles, which was discharged dramatically in 2012. Previously, The Queen of Versailles was chosen for the U.S. Narrative Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 (The world debuts of 16 American narrative films). The Queen of Versailles was additionally respected by being chosen to be the premiere night narrative movie for the Sundance Film Festival.
The movie was procured by Magnolia Pictures on the principal day of the festival. Also in 2012, she was granted the Grand Jury Prize from the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFFDOCS), a moment Best Director Award from the RiverRun Film Festival, the Special Jury Documentary Feature prize from the deadCenter Film Festival. On October 22, 2012, The Queen of Versailles was designated for Best Documentary Film, 2012 by the International Documentary Association (IDA).
According to PBS/POV, The Queen of Versailles was positioned number 2 of the Top 10 Documentaries of 2012, in light of honors, assignments, and other positioning criteria. In January 2013, Greenfield was named by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for the year 2012.
Lauren Greenfield Works and publications
- THIN (Chronicle Books, 2006)
- Girl Culture (Chronicle Books, 2002)
- Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood (Hardcover Knopf, 1997; softcover Chronicle Books, 2002)
- Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth (Phaidon Press, 2017)
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