Lauren Greenfield
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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 . 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.

In March 2009, she was chosen to be a Featured Photographer (alongside Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as The Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California Mid-century modern around the world...

, Tim Street-Porter, Douglas Kirkland
Douglas Kirkland
Douglas Kirkland is a prominent photographer based in the United States. At age twenty-four, Kirkland was hired as a staff photographer for Look magazine and became famous for his 1961 photos of Marilyn Monroe taken for Look's 25th anniversary issue...

, Greg Gorman
Greg Gorman
Greg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers, including Esquire, GQ, Interview, Life, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times...

, Carolyn Cole
Carolyn Cole
Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2004, for her coverage of the siege of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.-Biography:...

, Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...

 and John Baldessari
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...

) in the inaugural exhibition at The Annenberg Space for Photography, “L8S ANG3LES”.

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. Her work was exhibited alongside similarly curated collections by Leonard Freed
Leonard Freed
Leonard Freed was a documentary photojournalist and longtime Magnum member. He was born to Jewish, working-class parents of Eastern European descent.-Career:...

 (Black in White America), Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war.- Biography :...

 (Vietnam Inc.), W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith
William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.- Life and work :...

 (Minamata), Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and a full member since 1980. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Times, Time, Geo and Paris Match...

 (Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979), Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F...

 (Streetwise), Larry Towell
Larry Towell
Larry Towell is a Canadian photographer, poet, and oral historian.Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario and studied visual arts at York University in Toronto where his interest in photography first began...

 (The Mennonites), Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...

 (Migrations), and James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey is an American photojournalist and war photographer.He grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science ....

 ("The Sacrifice"). In October 2010, the exhibition received the Lucie Award for Curator(Brett Abbott)/Exhibition of the Year.

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 (alongside Melvin Sokolsky
Melvin Sokolsky
Melvin Sokolsky is an American photographer and film director.Born in New York City, Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten. Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own...

, Albert Watson
Albert Watson
Albert William Watson was a South Carolina politician.Watson was born in Sumter, South Carolina and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He graduated from the University of South Carolina law school in 1950 and opened a law practice in the state capital, Columbia...

, and Tyen). 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. As of June 2011, attendance by the public to the "Beauty CULTure" exhibition has smashed all previous records. In October 2011, the exhibition received the Lucie Award for Curator(Kohle Yohannan)/Exhibition of the Year.

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". This work helped kickstart her career as an intern for National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded...

. A subsequent grant from National Geographic helped her with her debut monograph, "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood" (Knopf 1997). 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", 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
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California...

, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the International Center of Photography
International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography is a photography museum, school, and research center in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States...

, the Center for Creative Photography
Center for Creative Photography
The Center for Creative Photography , established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Garry...

, 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
New York City
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, the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, 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
National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded...

, Stern, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

, New York Magazine, ELLE
Elle
Elle may refer to:*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle , a fashion publication*Ellé, a river in France*Elle , a female given name*Elle , a Sri Lankan game similar to baseball*Ælle of Sussex, a Saxon king...

, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...

, Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...

, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

, and The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...

 Magazine. She has received many photography awards and grants, including the Art Directors Club Gold Cube for Photography, National Geographic Grant, the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer (1996), a Hasselblad Foundation
Hasselblad Foundation
The Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation, established in 1979, is a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation. The main aim of the Foundation is to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. The Foundation also presents an annual international award in...

 Grant, the NPPA Community Awareness Award, and the People's Choice Award at the Moscow Biennial.

FILMOGRAPHY

Ms. Greenfield is in post production on a new documentary feature film, entitled "The Queen of Versailles", which is scheduled for release in 2012. "The Queen of Versailles" has been selected for the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 2012 (The world premieres of 16 American documentary films). "The Queen of Versailles" has been further honored by being selected to be the opening night documentary film for the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

.

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 "Beauty CULTure" exhibition (May - November 2011). 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".

Greenfield's follow-up short film, "kids + money
Kids + money
The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures...

", was selected as one of the top five nonfiction shorts in the world by Cinema Eye Honors
Cinema Eye Honors
The Cinema Eye Honors is an award which celebrates nonfiction films and filmmakers, recognizing the breadth of the genre and includes the crafts of cinematography, editing, producing, directing, etc. It was first presented at the IFC Center in New York City on March 18, 2008...

 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
Kids + money
The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures...

" 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
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 for HBO entitled THIN (see Thin (film)
Thin (film)
The 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film, THIN, directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, is an exploration of The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida; a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. The film mostly revolves around four women with...

), and has published an accompanying book with the same title. This feature documentary film was selected for the Competition at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 in 2006. In September 2006, Greenfield received the prestigious John Grierson
John Grierson
John Grierson was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. According to popular myth, in 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" to describe a non-fiction film.-Early life:Grierson was born in Deanston, near Doune, Scotland...

 Award for director of the best feature-length documentary at the London Film Festival
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...

 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)
Thin (film)
The 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film, THIN, directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, is an exploration of The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida; a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. The film mostly revolves around four women with...

).

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
  • "Fashion Show" (2010) multimedia with photo, video and audio
  • "Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream" (2009) - multimedia with photo, video and audio
  • "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
Stockland Martel
Stockland Martel is a photo-representation agency headquartered in New York and founded in 1983 by Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel . The first person they signed was Walter Iooss, and in the years since they have developed a diverse international roster of award-winning photographers...

, and Institute (IAM)
Institute (IAM)
Institute for Artist Management is an artist management company, which serves media, editorial, advertising, entertainment, record industry, fine art, book publishing, radio, online/mobile media, public engagements and corporate clients....

 (INSTITUTE for Artist Management). She was a member of the VII Photo Agency from 2002 to 2009. She is married to Frank Evers
Frank Evers (NYPH)
Frank Evers is the CEO of Institute for Artist Management . Founded in 2009, INSTITUTE is an artist management and multi-platform production company focused on editorial, cultural and commercial clients. INSTITUTE represents filmmakers and photographers, and operates out of New York, Los Angeles...

 (Founder/CEO, INSTITUTE
Institute (IAM)
Institute for Artist Management is an artist management company, which serves media, editorial, advertising, entertainment, record industry, fine art, book publishing, radio, online/mobile media, public engagements and corporate clients....

 and the Co-Founder of the New York Photo Festival
New York Photo Festival
The New York Photo Festival was founded in January 2007 by Frank Evers and Daniel Power in an effort to establish a world-class photo festival in the United States dedicated to the "Future of Contemporary Photography"...

), with whom she has two sons, and they reside in Venice, California
Venice, Los Angeles, California
Venice is a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk, a two-and-a-half mile pedestrian-only promenade that features performers, fortune-tellers, artists, and vendors...

.

Filmography

  • VERSAILLES
    Versailles
    Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...

     (In development and produced by Evergreen Pictures. Release scheduled for 2012)
  • Beauty CULTure (Commissioned by The Annenberg Space for Photography, produced by Evergreen Pictures. Launched in 2011),
  • THIN
    Thin
    Thin may refer to:*People with lean narrow physiques, see emaciation and underweight* Thin client, computer in client-server architecture networks* Thin film, material layer of about 1 µm thickness...

     (see Thin (film)
    Thin (film)
    The 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film, THIN, directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, is an exploration of The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida; a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. The film mostly revolves around four women with...

    ) (Commissioned by HBO for broadcast, 2006)
  • kids + money
    Kids + money
    The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures The 2008 cinéma vérité documentary film, "kids + money", was directed by photographer/filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and produced by Evergreen Pictures...

     (Commissioned by The New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

     and produced by Evergreen Pictures. Broadcast on HBO in 2008)

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