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Generation wealth, Lauren Greenfield ; foreword by Juliet Schor ; photographs edited with Trudy Wilner Stack ; text edited with Susan Lynley Welsh

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Generation wealth

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Lauren Greenfield ; foreword by Juliet Schor ; photographs edited with Trudy Wilner Stack ; text edited with Susan Lynley Welsh

Generation wealth is Laura Greenfield's extraordinary visual history of our growing obsession with wealth. Weaving two and a half decades of work into an epic narrative, she has created a revelatory cultural document. Through 650 color-saturated images and 150 riveting first-person interviews, Greenfield explores a consumer appetite unprecedented in human history. Keeping up with the Joneses has become Keeping up with the Kardashians as the "aspirational gap" between what we want and what we can afford has dramatically widened. Greenfield's journey starts in Los Angeles and spreads across America and beyond, as she documents how we export the values of materialism, celebrity culture, and social status to every corner of the globe. We hear the stories of students, single parents, and families overwhelmed by crushing debt, yet determined to purchase luxury houses, cars, and clothing. We visit the homes and observe the rituals of the international elite - from Bel-Air to Monaco, Russia to China. And we encounter the A-list celebrities we follow on reality TV and social media, the same influencers who shape our consumer desires and sense of self. "It is hard to see ourselves clearly," curator Trudy Wilner Stack writes in her essay, "without the mirror she holds up." Generation wealth is that mirror, and it is impossible to read this book without seriously considering our own role in this story

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