FRESHJIVE & RESERVE PRESENT: DANIELLE LEVITT " WE ARE EXPERIENCED"

On behalf of powerHouse Books, Freshjive and Reserve, we would like to
invite you to the LA launch of We Are Experienced by Danielle Levitt on
Thursday, February 12, 2009 from 7-10pm at Reserve, 420 North Fairfax
Avenue. The evening will feature a book signing, exhibition, and launch of
six limited edition t-shirts,  4 under the FRESHJIVE label, and 2 under the
WARRIORS OF RADNESS label.
  
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.

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