Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood [Paperback]

Lauren Greenfield (Author), Carrie Fisher (Introduction), Richard Rodriguez (Afterword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2004

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.

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""The most significant series of photographs of American adolescents and adolescence culture since Mary Ellen Mark's Streetwise."

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 2nd edition (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811844137
• ISBN-13: 978-0811844130
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 10.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #802,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb In Every Respect, December 23, 2007

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This review is from: Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood (Paperback)

From the Introduction by Carrie Fisher, the extraordinary photographs by a young photographer, Lauren
Greenfield (whose subsequent work more than justified our excitement over this book), to the afterword
by Richard Rodriquez, who unfailingly expresses in the most sparse and articulate prose, the exact phrase
to describe what we all wish we had the power to think and say, this is a book of both accomplishment
beyond her years, and the promise of extraordinary work in the future.

Buy it. Read it and review the images many times. It only gets better with each insight gained from picking
it up again and again.