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Weaving together stories about affluence, beauty, body image, competition, corruption, fantasy, and excess, Greenfield\u2019s sweeping project questions the distance between value and commodity in a globalized consumerist culture.\nGreenfield\u2019s lushly colored photographs are densely packed with visual information. These images and the ways in which the sitters present themselves are alternately shocking, humorous, touchingly vulnerable, and, often, unnervingly brash, a quality that reveals the trust she\u00a0builds with the people on the other side of her camera. Paired with candid interviews of the sitters, each picture and encounter behind it is an attempt to understand what motivates individuals in their pursuit of\u00a0\u201cthe good life.\"\u00a0Taken as a broader social document, the accumulation and intersection of their stories, which are primarily American but also include perspectives from Ireland, Iceland, the United Arab Emirates, China, and Russia, explore the separation between inherent personal values and the priorities that are marketed to consumers en masse.\nGeneration Wealth\u00a0chronicles a progressive distortion of the American Dream in the 21st century and questions its sustainability. By organizing 25\u00a0years of work into one complex narrative, Greenfield also seeks to better understand the system that ties together so many of our largest commercial industries\u2014among them fashion, entertainment, real estate, and banking\u2014together\u2014and how their standards shape our behavior.\nLauren Greenfield was born in 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Los Angeles; she\u00a0earned her BA\u00a0in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1987. Her\u00a0work has appeared in numerous publications, including ELLE, The Guardian, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, Le Monde, Marie Claire, National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. She is the director of four full-length documentary films, including the Emmy-nominated Thin (2006) and the award-winning Queen of Versailles (2012), and five documentary shorts. Greenfield\u2019s latest feature-length documentary,\u00a0Wealth: The Influence of Affluence, will be released in the fall of 2017.\nGENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield was originally shown at and created by the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles. The exhibtion is accompanied by a monograph published by Phaidon.\nTOP IMAGE: Jackie and friends with Versace handbags at a private opening at the Versace store, Beverly Hills, California, 2007. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Film director and producer Brett Ratner (right), 29, and Russell Simmons, 41, a businessman and cofounder of hip-hop label Def Jam, at L\u2019Iguane restaurant, St. Barts, 1998. Few establishments on the island accepted credit cards, and visitors often carried large amounts of cash. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Crenshaw High School girls selected by a magazine to receive \u201cOscar treatment\u201d for a prom photo shoot take a limo to the event with their dates, Culver City, California, 2001. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n llona at home with her daughter, Michelle, 4, Moscow, 2012. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Jackie and friends with Versace handbags at a private opening at the Versace store, Beverly Hills, California, 2007. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Xue Qiwen, 43, in her Shanghai apartment, decorated with furniture from her favorite brand, Versace, 2005. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Film director and producer Brett Ratner (right), 29, and Russell Simmons, 41, a businessman and cofounder of hip-hop label Def Jam, at L\u2019Iguane restaurant, St. Barts, 1998. Few establishments on the island accepted credit cards, and visitors often carried large amounts of cash. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Crenshaw High School girls selected by a magazine to receive \u201cOscar treatment\u201d for a prom photo shoot take a limo to the event with their dates, Culver City, California, 2001. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n llona at home with her daughter, Michelle, 4, Moscow, 2012. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n Jackie and friends with Versace handbags at a private opening at the Versace store, Beverly Hills, California, 2007. \u00a9 Lauren Greenfield\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ICP Museum\n \n 250 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 \n \n \n Sep 20, 2017 - Jan 07, 2018\n \n \n \n Press Release\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Thanks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n ICP's presentation of GENERATION WEALTH by Lauren Greenfield has been made possible by the generous support of the ICP Exhibitions Committee; Victoria and Justin Gmelich; ICP's Official Hotel Partner The Standard, East Village; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Image",
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