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About the Book:
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.
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We Are Experienced includes football stars, tanorexics, 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. The book includes a Q&A with Mark Jacobs.
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About the Author:
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, Arena Homme Plus, and New York magazine. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Cynthia Broan Gallery, C&M Arts, and Riva Gallery, New York, and most recently at Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, CA.
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Miss Rosen’s Contribution:
Editorial Consultation, Text Editing, Production Management, Publicity, and Advertising.
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Coordinated international publicity campaign including coverage in
Arena, Arena Homme +, Beautiful/Decay, Black Book, Bust, Details, Entertainment Weekly, The Fader, Flavorwire, Hypebeast,
i-D, GQ, GQ Italia, LA Weekly, Manhattan, New York Magazine, New York Post, New York Times Style Section,
Newsweek, Nylon, Out, Paper, ReadyMade, SlamXHype, Style.com, Teen Vogue, Telegraph,
Tokion, V Magazine, and Vogue Italia, among others.
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YOUTH CULTURE/PHOTOGRAPHY
Clothbound, 13.25 x 9.25 inches, 144 pages, 76 four-color photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-467-7, $55.00
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Photographs ©Danielle Levitt
Event Photographs ©Jianai Jenny Chen
Cover courtesy of powerHouse Books