Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Lauren Greenfield Wed. April 21st.

Lauren Greenfield
 
When: Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Time: 7:00 PM 
 
Where: RIT College of Liberal Arts Bldg. 6 room A 205

Ac
claimed photographer Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects GirlCulture and Fast Forward. In 2003 she was named by American Photo as one of the 25 most influential photographers working today. Greenfield graduated from Harvard in 1987 and started her career as an intern for National Geographic. Since 1991, her photographs have regularly appeared in major publications and have received numerous prestigious awards. Her work is in many major collections throughout the United States.

Greenfield's first feature-length documentary film, Thin, aired on HBO, and is  accompanied by a photography book of the same name (Chronicle Books, 2006). Thin was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Direction in 2007. Greenfield's follow-up short film, Kids + Money, premiered at the AFI Fest and won the Shorts Audience Award and was selected as one of the top five nonfiction shorts in the world 
by Cinema Eye Honors 2009.

 www.laurengreenfield.com

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