Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood - Softcover

Greenfield, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811844137 ISBN 13: 9780811844130

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2004

Synopsis

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Now available in paperback, Lauren Greenfield's acclaimed Fast Forward is a powerful look at Los Angeles youth culture and its influence on the rest of our society. From the affluent children of the Westside to the graffiti gangs and party crews of East LA, young Angelenos reckon with an overwhelming barrage of advertising and entertainment images emphasizing money, possessions, and eternal youth. This collection of 79 color photographs, accompanied by interviews with the children and their parents, reveals the realities of growing up fast in a culture that is at once irresistible and unforgiving. A compelling precursor to Greenfield's widely praised Girl Culture, Fast Forward is a telling document of the direction in which today's ultra image-conscious culture is pointed.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Photographer Lauren Greenfield capures often shocking, always startling images of children at school, at play, or at home in the precocious city of Los Angeles. The stunning color photographs range from the children of the gang culture of South Central and East L.A. to the affluent, often show-business world of the Westside. Underlying is the overwhelming importance of image and celebrity, with its materialistic trappings of fast cars and expensive clothes. 80 full-color photos.

About the Author:

Lauren Greenfield has received the International Center of Photography's Best Young Photographer award, among other honors. Her work belongs to numerous museum collections and appears regularly in the New York Times Magazine , Time , and the New Yorker . A member of the prestigious photography collective VII, she lives in Venice, California.

Richard Rodriguez is an on-air essayist for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and the author of two memoirs.

Carrie Fisher is an actress, screenwriter, and author of three novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0811844137
• ISBN 13: 9780811844130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128