The complete photographic series from the iconic documentary, where wealth, overreach, and reality-TV culture converge in one distinctly American aria by Lauren Greenfield, named by The New York Times as "America's foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy". A century after Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald mapped the American Dream's promise and peril, Lauren Greenfield's latest photographic monograph,
The Queen of Versailles: An American Allegory, arrives in bookstores to visually recapture the origin story behind her hit 2012 documentary film and the 2025 Broadway musical--collectively transforming a documentary mirror onto the national stage, where wealth, overreach, and reality-TV culture converge in one distinctly American aria. Named by
The New York Times as
"America's foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy," and the best-selling author of four award-winning monographs that incisively deconstruct turn-of-the-century America (
Fast Forward, Girl Culture, Thin, Generation Wealth), Greenfield now presents
The Queen of Versailles: An American Allegory--the first publication of the complete photographic series from the iconic documentary, featuring essays by Greenfield and longtime collaborator and curator Trudy Wilner-Stack.