Fast forward : Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood

Greenfield, Lauren (photographer & text); Carrie Fisher (introduction); Richard Rodriguez (afterword)

ISBN 10: 0679454535 / ISBN 13: 9780679454533

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997

Oblong quarto. 128pp. Color photo dust jacket, yellow spine lettered in black. Color illustrated boards that mimic the d.j. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. A fine, as new copy. This book was the winner of "The International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Young Photographer." "From the affluent children of the Westside to the graffiti gangs and party crews of East L.A., the Los Angeles young are obsessed by the seductive lifestyle of the entertainment industry, with its emphasis on celebrity, looks, money, and things. Greenfield's pictures and text chronicle vastly disparate yet eerily similar child societies: an eight-year-old recording his own rap music in his father's home recording studio, a gay teenager experimenting with drag at the. Hollywood High School for the Performing Arts, a Latino tagger seeking recognition and respect by spray-painting the name of his crew on the city's walls and buses. L.A.'s children are indoctrinated early into the cult of image: Greenfield documents a competition for aspiring models, a teen recovering from a nose job, and a thirteen-year-old working out with her personal trainer. Copying their inner-city peers, rich Beverly Hills kids hang in crews and talk like. Gangsters; the poor and the affluent sport pagers and hip-hop fashion, step out at lavish proms, cruise in stoked-up cars. Through Greenfield's compassionate and incisive lens, we become witness to an arresting vision of our children and our society." Publisher. Seller Inventory # 50246

Synopsis:

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.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fast forward : Growing Up in the Shadow of ...
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First edition.