Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield Renowned photographer Greenfield has won acclaim and awards for her studies of youth culture. In "Girl Culture, " she combines a photojournalists sense of story with fine-art composition and color to create an astonishing and intelligent exploration of American girls. 100 photos. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Renowned photographer Lauren Greenfield has won acclaim and awards for her studies of youth culture. In Girl Culture, she combines a photojournalists sense of story with fine-art composition and color to create an astonishing and intelligent exploration of American girls. Her photographs provide a window into the secret worlds of girls social lives and private rituals, the dressing room and locker room, as well as the iconic subcultures of the popular clique: cheerleaders, showgirls, strippers, debutantes, actresses, and models. Author Biography Lauren Greenfield is an internationally acclaimed photographer and documentary filmmaker. Her photographs, including the monographs Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN, have been widely published, exhibited and collected by leading museums around the world. She is also the director of the award-winning films THIN, kids + money, Beauty CULTure and The Queen of Versailles. Her most recent projects include the viral hit #likeagirl and Generation Wealth. She lives in Venice, California. Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a professor at Cornell University, where she has been teaching history, human development, and womens studies for over twenty years. She is the author of The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. She lives in Ithaca, New York. Review American girlhood aint what it used to be. Maybe there are pockets of girls out there who still revel in the "Little House on the Prairie" books or dress up their dolls or run lemonade stands. But they arent catching the eyes of sociologists, who seem to agree that girls today are growing up in a hyper-sexualized peer pressure-cooker and they dont show up in "Girl Culture," a new book from photographer Lauren Greenfield (Chronicle Books; $40.00). Even the youngest girls in Greenfields gritty, gorgeous portraits are far too busy dressing up like Barbie dolls to play with them. A gentle warning: this is not a book for parents desperate to maintain their naivete about whats happening in their daughters lives: these accounts show you more than youve ever imagined about the sexual and social habits of girls. Greenfields photographs are accompanied by narratives from the girls themselves; the stories they tell, which are unflinchingly raw and honest, are often difficult to read. No matter how well you think you understand what goes on in adolescent life, it can be shocking to read first-hand accounts of the jealousy, pettiness, meanness and general anxiety that characterize female adolescence. The girls in this book range in age from pre-school to post-grad. And Greenfield makes good use of the insecurities of each age, zeroing in on the shame of an 11-year-old at fat camp, emphasizing the anxiety of an up-and-coming actress standing outside her trailer, highlighting the terrible uncertainty of a teenage girl who is banished, by virtue of her rounded face and curly dark hair, from the blonde, slim world of the popular girls. While it will come as no surprise to learn that beauty and appearance feature prominently the minds of most girls, Greenfields portraits reveal the force with which the need to be desired, even objectified, in a very adult way is expressed, as well as the unexpected ambivalence with which that objectification, once achieved, is Details ISBN1452159289 Author Lauren Greenfield Short Title GIRL CULTURE Pages 156 Audience Age 13-22 Publisher Chronicle Books Language English ISBN-10 1452159289 ISBN-13 9781452159287 Media Book Format Hardcover Residence Venice, CA, US Year 2016 Imprint Chronicle Books Country of Publication United States Edition New edition Illustrations Full colour photography throughout Place of Publication San Francisco Publication Date 2016-11-22 UK Release Date 2016-11-22 NZ Release Date 2016-11-22 US Release Date 2016-11-22 DEWEY 779.24092 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-11-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:100886116;

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