Greenfield Lauren Fisher Carrie Rodriguez (5 results)

Landscape 4to, 127pp. Colour illustrations. A very good paperback copy with a slightly yellowed spine.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 128 pages; very good condition; light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

First edition. Oblong quarto. 128pp. Color photo dust jacket, yellow spine lettered in black. Color illustrated boards that mimic the d.j. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. A fine, as new copy. This book was the winner of "The International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Young Photographer." "From the affluent children of the Westside to the graffiti gangs and party crews of East L.A., the Los Angeles young are obsessed by the seductive lifestyle of the entertainment industry, with its emphasis on celebrity, looks, money, and things. Greenfield's pictures and text chronicle vastly disparate yet eerily similar child societies: an eight-year-old recording his own rap music in his father's home recording studio, a gay teenager experimenting with drag at the. Hollywood High School for the Performing Arts, a Latino tagger seeking recognition and respect by spray-painting the name of his crew on the city's walls and buses. L.A.'s children are indoctrinated early into the cult of image: Greenfield documents a competition for aspiring models, a teen recovering from a nose job, and a thirteen-year-old working out with her personal trainer. Copying their inner-city peers, rich Beverly Hills kids hang in crews and talk like. Gangsters; the poor and the affluent sport pagers and hip-hop fashion, step out at lavish proms, cruise in stoked-up cars. Through Greenfield's compassionate and incisive lens, we become witness to an arresting vision of our children and our society." Publisher.

First edition. 4to. Oblong. 128pp. Pictorial glossy paper-covered boards in original dj. This book "is a powerful testimony to the ways in which Hollywood values are reflected in the everyday lives and rituals of the youth of Los Angeles. In seventy-nine unforgettable full-color photographs accompanied by poignant and unsettling interviews with children and their parents, the award-winning photographer Lauren Greenfield reveals the realities of growing up too fast in a culture that is, at once, irresistible and unforgiving." Signed by author on free front endpaper. Fine. From the affluent children of the Westside to the graffiti gangs and party crews of East L.A., the Los Angeles young are obsessed by the seductive lifestyle of the entertainment industry, with its emphasis on celebrity, looks, money, and things. Greenfield's pictures and text chronicle vastly disparate yet eerily similar child societies: an eight-year-old recording his own rap music in his father's home recording studio, a gay teenager experimenting with drag at the. Hollywood High School for the Performing Arts, a Latino tagger seeking recognition and respect by spray-painting the name of his crew on the city's walls and buses. L.A.'s children are indoctrinated early into the cult of image: Greenfield documents a competition for aspiring models, a teen recovering from a nose job, and a thirteen-year-old working out with her personal trainer. Copying their inner-city peers, rich Beverly Hills kids hang in crews and talk like. Gangsters; the poor and the affluent sport pagers and hip-hop fashion, step out at lavish proms, cruise in stoked-up cars. Through Greenfield's compassionate and incisive lens, we become witness to an arresting vision of our children and our society. (OCLC).

Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine hardcover with a hint of handling in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Great photojournalistic work by the 1997 winner of the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for a Young Photographer. Lauren Greenfield was also picked as one of American Photo Magazine's 100 most influential people in photography. This is her first book: "A jolting and terrifying journey into the cult of appearances." Photographs by Lauren Greenfield; introduction by Carrie Fisher; afterword by Richard Rodriguez. SIGNED BY GREENFIELD on the ffep page; no inscription. 127 pages; 79 color plates; 11.5 x 10 inches.