Creator Bio
Lauren Greenfield
b. 1966
The photographs of American photographer Lauren Greenfield, born in Los Angeles, have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, People, National Geographic, and the New Yorker. She was named by American Photo as one of the twenty-five most influential photographers working today (2003). Greenfield is especially known for chronicling youth culture. She is also the director of several award-winning documentary films, including THIN (2006).
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A Bat Mitzvah Party at the 20th Century Fox Movie Studio Commissary, West Los Angeles
This photograph of girls at a bat mitzvah was shot by Greenfield for a project about teenagers in Los Angeles. She was interested, she has said, “in how kids in Los Angeles seem to grow up quickly…