Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Fast Forward Ten Years by Lauren Greenfield

Greenfield's article is about the pictures that she took for her book in the article she discusses how when she took the pictures for her book she was still an adolescent. When the book was published she was an adult. She originally she began taking pictures in her hometown of LA but her project grew into something bigger. She discusses how when she was working on her first book only the rich kids new about the expensive designer. When she started to work on her second book she noticed that kids from urban areas and suburban areas were wearing the same designers. It doesn't matter where you are from or if you can afford it they were wearing it. Then she realized the media is the reason why these kids all are dressing alike and wearing the same designers. Teen over seas are more worried about MTV than whats going on around them. Young girls are dressing and behaving like they are women in music videos, but when adults see her pictures in the museum's they act shocked. Because they see themselves in these pictures or they see their children, and still say that there lives and values are not like the ones in the book.
Greenfield is basically trying to show people that even though teens are young they are still impressionable. Everything that goes on around them affects them, especially the media. Even if you try to keep them away from it, some how they are still influenced. It is amazing and you really can't point the blame at one person because it is all around them. I agree with Greenfield and think that everything she discusses it true. Parents always try to act like they never did anything their children did when they were younger, but they probably did worse. Parents should talk to there children not criticise them.

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