Quotes by Lauren Greenfield

About Lauren Greenfield:

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.
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I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Lauren Greenfield

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

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I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.

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When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

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My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

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You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

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My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's every...

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I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.

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I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How...

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I focus on a lot of women's issues.

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Author Bio

  • NameLauren Greenfield
  • DescriptionAmerican photographer and filmmaker
  • Born1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Photographer; Cineaste; Film Director; Photojournalist