Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth

A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker

Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. 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. Provoking serious reflection, this book is not about the rich, but about the desire to be wealthy, at any cost.

Published on: 2017-05-15

Original language: English

Dimensions: 12.38" h x 1.88" w x 9.38" l,

Binding: Hardcover

504 pages

Review 

"Greenfield’s pictures are intimate and candid. Their authenticity derives from the trust required between photographer and subject, trust that each will deal only in raw truths, and with respect." - Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times

"One of the most acclaimed chroniclers of youth culture and the affluent." - TIME

"Her rigorous eye has taken her to numerous places that seem as though they would be difficult to gain unfettered access a clinic for eating disorders, the most expensive home in America, backstage at beauty pageants, the Bunny Ranch, and an infamous Atlanta strip club known as Magic City."- Jeanette D. Moses, American Photo

"Showcases the absurd extravagance of the world's wealthiest citizens." - Smithsonian

"From Bel Air to Beijing, Lauren Greenfield has an unparalleled gift for capturing modern wealth in all its baroque permutations. Her images are viscerally intimate-sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, and always unforgettable. 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

"Lauren Greenfield's photos of the wealth obsessed will make you rethink everything." - LA Weekly

"The book... is an anthropological deep-dive into the way the very idea of wealth has infected the human psyche globally." - Los Angeles Times

"Provocative." - Fast Company Online

"The color saturated portraits... embody the aspirational fantasies of the 99%." - Publishers Weekly

"With a golden cover and 650-odd images inside, the volume is a sociological record of the extreme measures taken to acquire and spend money." - T, The New York Times Style Magazine Online

About the Author 

Lauren Greenfield is an Emmy-award-winning photographer and filmmaker. 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 critic, and professor of sociology at Boston College. Her research focuses on the economics of work, spending, the environment, and consumer culture.

Trudy Wilner Stack was Curator of Exhibitions & Collections at the Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona for over a decade, after holding positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. She has curated dozens of exhibitions of contemporary and historical photography around the world, and is a frequent contributing author and lecturer.