Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth (9780714872124)
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714872121 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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The author seems to have exhibited prescient curiosity throughout her The author seems to have exhibited prescient curiosity throughout her literary career. The content appears particularly relevant at this time of political chaos. The photographs are well chosen and illustrative of her subject matter.. ClareWG said Highly Recommended. It's completely fascinating and the pictures show how she was trusted and given full access into "this other world", there are detailed stories of each photo which make the images even more compelling.. lhamo55 said Conspicuous Consumption by the One Percent and Those Who Would Gladly Bankrupt Themselves to Emulate Them.. I preordered this book from the publisher back in March and it arrived a month later substantially impressive in content and presentation. Those unfamiliar with Ms. Greenfield may want to have a look at her Amazon Author's Page to appreciate the focus of her past work - I think this book is a grand summary. Her films "Queen of Versailles" and "Thin", available for viewing here on Amazon, exemplify her hands-off approach to cataloging the excesses of conspicuous consumption. "Gen
A preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, and consumerism, her documentary The Queen of Versailles won the Best Documentary Director Award at Sundance in 2012. Her photographs have been widely published, exhibited - and collected - and her Super Bowl commercial, Like a Girl, went viral and swept the advertising awards of 2015.Juliet Schor is an author, economist, cultural
Greenfield has traveled the world - from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China - bearing witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and documenting its complicated consequences. A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmakerLauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. Provoking serious reflection, this book is not about the rich, but about the desire to be wealthy, at any cost.
Generation Wealth is that rare masterpiece that will keep you engrossed from cover to cover and lingering on the memory of its images long after you've put it down." —Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians"Generation Wealth is a comprehensive study of excess and evolution. Her images are viscerally intimate-sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, and always unforgettable. "From Bel Air to Beijing, Lauren Greenfield has an unparalleled gift for capturing modern wealth in all its baroque permutations. If nothing exceeds like excess, here we have a set of powerful examples. If I had the privilege of putti