Fig 10. Lauren Greenfield, b.
|If Benton's prodigal laments the stark loss of the self and Hopper's lonely figure suggests that there is no possibility of reversing this loss, Lauren Greenfield may hold out hope as she focuses on the mass-culture sources of the modern self and how they are used to construct personal identity in the ordinary lives of working people. Greenfield's cibachrome print (fig. 10), tinted in the warm, orange hues of women's magazines, documents a woman's daily manufacture of herself in a series entitled "Show Girls." Fascinated by the irony of the impersonal mechanics of personal identity construction, Greenfield explores how identity is donned for display.|