NYAB Event - Danielle Levitt "We Are Experienced"

Danielle Levitt "We Are Experienced"

Deitch Projects (Grand St.)

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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, 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.

Danielle Levitt is a New York-based photographer with a wide following in the fashion and art worlds. In addition to her ongoing professional work for numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Arena Homme Plus, and New York magazine, she has created advertising campaigns for Intel and Target. 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, California.

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