Halley's great portrait assignment write up on Lauren Greenfield

 Lauren Greenfield was born in Boston in 1966. She graduated from
Harvard in 1987 with a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies. Her
Senior Thesis photography project on the French Aristocracy was called
"Survivors of the French Revolution". Soon after finishing university,
she started as an intern for National Geographic. The magazine later
gave her a grant to provide financial support for her first monograph,
"Fast Forward: Growing Up In The Shadow Of Hollywood." Five years
later, she released "Girl Culture", which has been reprinted five
times.
        Greenfied's personal style is highly emotional, but in a very posed
and pretty way. Her photos reflect reality but depict it through a
lens that is uniquely hers - her photos do not show the acts of
emotion, but, rather, the aftermath and facade put together to cover
the ordeal.

This photo features emphasis on the money by the use of colour,
texture, and contrast between all of these. It looks as if she's
counting the money, or otherwise focusing hard on it. This could tell
a lot about the woman's character, and that, I think, is what
Greenfield tries to portray through these photos.

This image shows a large group of women, all wearing bikinis, standing
in the same pose. There is a variety amongst the women in terms of
colour, value, shape, form, and movement, but they all look eerily
similar which creates rhythm and unity. I think that these omen were
meant to look very much a part of a group, even though they are in
reality probably competing against each other. Each woman looks like
she is simultaneously trying to stand out and bled in to the crowd.
Greenfield highlights this through her objective lens, and shows the
objective reality of situations like these without applying judgement.