The next generation of Paris Hiltons

The rich kids of America are coming into their own. But it’s not all bad news.

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Lauren Greenfield: documenting "generation wealth"
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Doctors have a saying that the best diseases to specialise in are those of the rich. Photographer Lauren Greenfield seems to have been thinking along similar lines. While "trying to form trusting relationships with members of a Mayan tribe in Mexico in the early 1990s", she "picked up a discarded copy of Bret Easton Ellis's novel Less Than Zero", says Rupert Neate in The Guardian. After reading about "the parties, drug taking and sex lives of rich college kids", she decided it would be more interesting "to swap photography subjects" from the Maya of Chiapas to the "rich kids of her home town".

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