Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood

Photographer Lauren Greenfield capures often shocking, always startling images of children at school, at play, or at home in the precocious city of Los Angeles. The stunning color photographs range from the children of the gang culture of South Central and East L.A. to the affluent, often show-business world of the Westside. Underlying is the overwhelming importance of image and celebrity, with its materialistic trappings of fast cars and expensive clothes.

Text: Fisher Carrie, Rodriguez Richard. cm 29×25; pp. 130; COL; hardcover with dust jacket. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997.