Lauren Greenfield

Lauren Greenfield
Born	1966 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Film director, artist
Website	http://www.laurengreenfield.com/

Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three photographic monographs, directed four documentary films, exhibited in museums, and published in magazines and other publications.

She is married to Frank Evers, with whom she has two sons, and they reside in Venice, California.

Greenfield graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a B.A., majoring in Visual and Environmental Studies. Her Senior Thesis photography project on the French Aristocracy was called "Survivors of the French Revolution". This work helped kick start her career as an intern for National Geographic Magazine. A subsequent grant from National Geographic provided financial support towards her debut monograph, "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood" (Knopf 1997). Five years after the release of "Fast Forward", Greenfield produced a second major body of work about the self-esteem crisis amongst American women, entitled "Girl Culture".

Greenfield's photographs have been regularly published in international publications, such as The New Yorker,New York,New York Times Magazine,The Sunday Times Magazine,Stern,The Guardian,Der Spiegel,La Repubblica,Time,Vanity Fair,People,National Geographic,ELLE, Harper's,Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire.

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