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Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield’s documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. In this fascinating meld of career retrospective and film essay, Greenfield offers a meditation on her extensive body of work, structuring it through the lens of materialism and its increasing sway on culture and society in America and throughout the world. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, her portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1955, San Diego, California, USA
25 September 1944, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
21 October 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1970, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia]
18 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
March 28, 1988 in Austin, Texas, USA
7 March 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 March 1926, New York City, New York, USA
27 June 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 October 1949, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
29 August 1941, London, England, UK
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
18 September 1956, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA
3 November 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
October 13, 2018
The degree of difficulty here is off the charts, and the wildly uneven results only make the achievement of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson all the more impressive.August 02, 2018
Despite having been a renowned photographer for more than a quarter-century, Greenfield here seems to have lost her focus.July 27, 2018
Greenfield's titillating survey of America's grossest obsessions, from plastic surgery to porn, only flirts with economic and social context, mainly limiting itself to observation and personalization.August 22, 2018
Bleak and compelling viewing.July 25, 2018
"Generation Wealth" feels like it's all over the place, and that, if most of its subjects are lacking in depth, the movie itself is open to the same criticism.August 26, 2018
Greenfield's film is all over the place, and is more stream of consciousness than informative or even entertaining.August 24, 2018
Generation Wealth falls victim to the very thing that it is attempting to critique, namely excess. Quite simply, there is too much stuff in here.August 30, 2018
But as in so much of this sprawling meditation-an odd mix where the heinously crass often outweighs the authentically beautiful-deep analysis is lacking.October 09, 2018
The film is not so much a documentary about how greed and money are destroying society as it is an autobiographical look at Greenfield's obsession with the lifestyles of the rich and the famous.August 20, 2018
Generation Wealth feels incomplete and haunted.August 03, 2018
Scattered and self-indulgent, a career retrospective in search of a coherent theme.July 25, 2018
If "Generation Wealth" has a message that empty acquisitiveness is bad, it delivers it, like the rest of her work, by showing, not telling.