Lauren Greenfield
dal 17/5/2005 al 2/7/2005
Segnalato da
17/5/2005
Lauren Greenfield
Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale
The exhibit includes over 30 photographs from Greenfield's 2002 groundbreaking book of the same name, in which the artist explores, in documentary fashion, female identity, and the way girls grow up in America today. The telling images present stunning examples of girlhood, from preschoolers dressing as princesses, to adolescents coping with anorexia, to strippers plying their trade.
Girl Culture
Madelyn Jordon Fine Art is proud to present the only Westchester County exhibit of Lauren Greenfield's "Girl Culture". The exhibit includes over 30 photographs from Greenfield's 2002 groundbreaking book of the same name, in which she explores, in documentary fashion, female identity, and the way girls grow up in America today. The telling images present stunning examples of girlhood, from preschoolers dressing as princesses, to adolescents coping with anorexia, to strippers plying their trade, which have broken barriers and established her as "one of Americas's most acclaimed chroniclers of youth culture".
As written in American Photo, "Greenfield turned her documentary work on girls into a project that blurred the distinction between photojournalism, art, and social science. The images examine the often painful social and emotional lives of girls and how, for so many, their well-being and self-esteem are tied to appearance." Girl Culture has been on exhibit in over 15 museums around the world including The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona; The International Center for Photography, NYC; Oakland Museum of Art; and many others. A free online guide for educators accompanies the exhibition, made available through the Center of Creative Photography in Tuscon, Arizona.
Greenfield has been a photographic wunderkind since she broke out into public awareness in 1997 with her first book "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood". A Harvard graduate, she won the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for young photographers in 1997; She was selected to the list of American Photos Magazine 100 most influential people in photography and one of Canon's Explorers of Light. Her work was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 and appears regularly in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper's Bazaar and Time.
Image: Stanford University Women's Swim Team
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 18,2005
Madelyn Jordon Fine Art
14 Chase Road - Scarsdale NY