Generation Wealth

Name: Generation Wealth
Brand: Hachette Australia
SKU: 9780714872124
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By Lauren Greenfield

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Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield is a compelling visual and investigative journey into the world of wealth over the past twenty-five years. Travelling globally from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China, Greenfield captures the impact of economic boom-and-bust cycles and the far-reaching consequences of society’s obsession with wealth. This book goes beyond the lifestyles of the rich, focusing instead on the universal desire to attain wealth at any cost, provoking serious reflection on cultural values and materialism.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in photography, sociology, contemporary culture, and economic history. It is ideal for those seeking thought-provoking, visually rich examinations of societal values and the costs of materialism across the globe.

A highly anticipated monograph from the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer and filmmaker

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Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth is both a retrospective and an investigation into the subject of wealth over the last twenty-five years. Greenfield has travelled the world — from Los Angeles to Moscow, Dubai to China — bearing witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and documenting its complicated consequences.

Provoking serious reflection, this book is not about the rich, but about the desire to be wealthy, at any cost.

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Lucie Award for "Best Book Photographer of the Year", 2017.

Praised for its expert visual storytelling, Generation Wealth received acclaim for its enthralling and insightful exploration of excess and narcissism in contemporary society. Hollywood News called it "expertly crafted," while Screen International described it as "an insightful and scathing look at society's obsession with excess." Variety noted its compelling argument about society's potential decline, and Artsy highlighted the urgency of Greenfield's long-term documentation. The book is hailed as both revelatory and sobering, a comprehensive study of wealth's evolution.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780714872124

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 May 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Contributors:

Contributions by Juliet Schor
Contributions by Trudy Wilner Stack

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 48.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 3316g

Pages: 504

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About the Author

Lauren Greenfield is an Emmy-award-winning photographer and filmmaker. A preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, and consumerism, her documentary The Queen of Versailles won the Best Documentary Director Award at Sundance in 2012. Her photographs have been widely published, exhibited - and collected - and her Super Bowl commercial, Like a Girl, went viral and swept the advertising awards of 2015.

Juliet Schor is an author, economist, cultural critic, and professor of sociology at Boston College. Her research focuses on the economics of work, spending, the environment, and consumer culture.

Trudy Wilner Stack was Curator of Exhibitions & Collections at the Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona for over a decade, after holding positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. She has curated dozens of exhibitions of contemporary and historical photography around the world, and is a frequent contributing author and lecturer.