Lauren Greenfield

Named by the New York Times as “America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy,” and by American Photo as “one of the 25 most influential photographers”, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker/photographer Lauren Greenfield has produced groundbreaking work on consumerism, youth culture and gender for the past 25 years.  Her documentary films Thin, The Queen of Versailles and Generation Wealth, and photographic monographs, Fast Forward, Girl Culture, Thin and Generation Wealth,  have been screened, published, exhibited around the world, and collected by leading cultural institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), J. Paul Getty Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Smithsonian, International Center of Photography, and Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).

The Queen of Versailles won her the Best Documentary Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was named by Vogue as one of the top documentaries of all time.  Her viral ad, #LikeAGirl, swept commercial awards, including 14 Cannes Lions (2015), was named 3rd Best Ad of the Decade, earned Greenfield the #1 Director/Most Awarded Director by AdAge (the first woman to top this list), and has become part of the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) permanent collection. 

Greenfield’s latest body of work, Generation Wealth, garnered her the 2018 Photographer of the Year from the Art Directors Club, The Paris Photography Prize 2018 (PX3), and the Lucie for Best Book Photographer of 2018. The record-setting companion exhibition opened in Los Angeles at the Annenberg Space for Photography on April 2017 and has since traveled to the International Center of Photography (New York City), the Nobel Peace Center (Oslo) and the Fotomuseum (The Hague), and will open at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen) in September 2019. An accompanying film, Generation Wealth, opened the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Berlinale, SXSW, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and was released worldwide by Amazon Studios. In September 2018, Greenfield was awarded the LA Film Festival Spirit of Independence Award for her work on this film.  

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