Young Bucks / Photography
Clothbound Hardcover, 13.25 x 9.25 inches, 136 pages, 76 four-color photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-467-7
$55.00
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We Are Experienced
Photographs by: Danielle Levitt
Interview by: Mark Jacobs
Art Direction by: Tim McIntyre
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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.
Mark Jacobs is a New York-based style and culture
writer and editor who contributes to The New York Times
Magazine, i-D, V, and V Man. Formerly a Senior Editor at
Paper magazine, he is currently a Senior Editor at O, The
Oprah Magazine. He is also a creative consultant for clients
including Target.
Australian-born Tim McIntyre is Creative
Director of Rodeo magazine Italy, and Art
Director of the Berlin-based art biannual Qvest
Edition. Formerly Art Director of menswear
biannual Arena Homme Plus for seven years,
he has also guest art directed issues of i-D
and The Face. He is now based in London.
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