Lecture: Lauren Greenfield - Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolecence
at Art Institute of Chicago
Thursday, January 31, 2008
6pm
Fullerton Hall
Lauren Greenfield has become one of America's foremost chroniclers of what she calls "girl culture." With a sharp documentary eye attuned to gesture and expression and an ability to infiltrate settings as diverse as strip clubs, high-school bedrooms, and five-star resorts, she has produced an unflinching study of the social pressures faced by American girls and women. In her books Fast Forward: Growing up in the Shadow of Hollywood, Girl Culture, and Thin, as well as in the many popular journals in which her work is featured, she provides a new point of view for documentary photography. Greenfield is a member of VII, a Paris-based photojournalist cooperative founded by James Nachtwey and others to record the changes of society and culture worldwide.
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