Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
Direction
Greenfield's 25-year obsession pays off with devastating intimacy.
Editing
Juxtaposing child beauty queens and crypto bros hits different.
Director
Lauren Greenfield
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Greenfield started photographing wealthy LA teens in the 90s and accidentally documented the cultural shift that created influencers.
Bret Easton Ellis basically predicted this entire documentary in American Psycho—he shows up here as a talking head, which is deeply meta.
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