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    Don't Be Fooled: 'Generation Wealth' Is More About Wanting Than Having

    Lauren Greenfield's 500-page photo collection shows toddlers in designer clothes and magnums of champagne. But it's also about how ostentatious displays of wealth have replaced real social mobility.
    by Kelly McEvers May 10, 2017 4 minutes
    Jackie and friends with Versace handbags at a private opening at the Versace store, Beverly Hills, California, 2007.

    Plastic surgery, private jets, toddlers in designer clothes, magnums of champagne — Lauren Greenfield's 500-page photo collection, Generation Wealth, shows all of that. But this book isn't just about people who are wealthy, it's about people who want to be wealthy.

    I met up with Greenfield at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, where there's to accompany the new book. She says some of her early work was photographing kids here in LA, where she grew up. This project, about wealth and striving for wealth, developed from there, even though she didn't know it was about that at

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