The International Center of Photography opened its fall exhibition, Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield. This exhibit—an extraordinary visual record and thematic investigation of wealth obsession—is on view at the ICP Museum (250 Bowery) from September 20, 2017 through January 7, 2018. Generation Wealth is a mixed media presentation composed of 25 years of work by photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. The first major retrospective of Greenfield’s work, the exhibition features over 200 photographs, numerous first-person interviews, and documentary film footage. Weaving together stories about affluence, beauty, body image, competition, corruption, fantasy, and excess, Greenfield’s project questions the distance between value and commodity in a globalized consumerist culture. “ICP recognized early on that
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