SLAMXHYPE » Danielle Levitt http://slamxhype.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 We Are Experienced by Danielle Levitt http://slamxhype.com/art-design/film-books/we-are-experienced-by-danielle-levitt/ http://slamxhype.com/art-design/film-books/we-are-experienced-by-danielle-levitt/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:44:40 +0000 James Oliver http://slamxhype.com/?p=21446 Danielle Levitt arrived at her distinctive photographic style capturing street fashion, pop culture, and celebrity for countless publications. While producing this commercial work, Levitt also pursued her passion for documenting American youth. The result is We Are Experienced, Levitt’s first monograph, a series of portraits depicting adolescents in a variety of urban, suburban, and rural settings, as individuals and in groups, loaded with signifiers both mainstream and marginal.

We Are Experienced includes football stars, anorexics, wiccans, punks, prom dates, snowboarders, and baton twirlers. Levitt revels in the beauty of the age and its incomparable potential. She also exposes an advanced awareness particular to a generation. The notion of strident youthfulness was invented in the last century; today it is an understood quantity, a streamlined experience. Levitt’s subjects are well-schooled in the expectations, limitations, and developmental strategies of growing up American, and have unparalleled resources to identify in a multitude of ways. We Are Experienced is a lushly stylized archive of the choices they make.

Danielle Levitt is a New York-based photographer with a wide following in the fashion and art worlds. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Arena Homme Plus. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, CA.

The launch of We Are Experienced by Danielle Levitt will take place on Wednesday, October 29, at the much coveted Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street, New York. To celebrate the evening will boast music by Alice + Alex and live performance by NY Cheer All-Star Academy.

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]]> Danielle Levitt arrived at her distinctive photographic style capturing street fashion, pop culture, and celebrity for countless publications. While producing this commercial work, Levitt also pursued her passion for documenting American youth. The result is We Are Experienced, Levitt’s first monograph, a series of portraits depicting adolescents in a variety of urban, suburban, and rural settings, as individuals and in groups, loaded with signifiers both mainstream and marginal.

We Are Experienced includes football stars, anorexics, wiccans, punks, prom dates, snowboarders, and baton twirlers. Levitt revels in the beauty of the age and its incomparable potential. She also exposes an advanced awareness particular to a generation. The notion of strident youthfulness was invented in the last century; today it is an understood quantity, a streamlined experience. Levitt’s subjects are well-schooled in the expectations, limitations, and developmental strategies of growing up American, and have unparalleled resources to identify in a multitude of ways. We Are Experienced is a lushly stylized archive of the choices they make.

Danielle Levitt is a New York-based photographer with a wide following in the fashion and art worlds. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Arena Homme Plus. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, CA.

The launch of We Are Experienced by Danielle Levitt will take place on Wednesday, October 29, at the much coveted Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street, New York. To celebrate the evening will boast music by Alice + Alex and live performance by NY Cheer All-Star Academy.

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