What does “girl culture” mean to you today?
For her project “Girl Culture” made in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, artist Lauren Greenfield (greenfield_lauren) documented the daily lives and rituals of girls around the country.
“The body has become the primary canvas on which girls express their identities, insecurities, ambitions, and struggles,” Greenfield observes.
Her photographs explore girls’ relationships to each other, their own bodies, and the effects of popular culture on self-image.
“They are about the popular culture that we share and the way that the culture leaves its imprint on individuals in their most public and private moments. They are about the girls I photographed. They are also about me.”
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Images:
Sisters Violeta, 21, and Massiel, 15, at the Limited in a mall, San Francisco, California, negative 1999; print 2008, Lauren Greenfield. Getty Museum. © Lauren Greenfield/INSTITUTE
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