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For the first NemoHQ First Friday Party of the year we are pleased to host a Danielle Levitt book signing. [See announcement below.] We will provide wine, beer and a DJ plus we will have a special guest or two. As always entrance is free and open to all.

WE ARE EXPERIENCED by Danielle Levitt
PORTLAND, OR – Nemo Design and powerHouse Books are pleased to present WE ARE EXPERIENCED, a collection of photographs from Danielle Levitt’s newly published book of the same title. The opening event and book signing will take place on Friday, February 6, 2008 from 6:00pm- 10:pm. The show will run through Monday, March 02, 2008 at Nemo Design: 1875 SE Belmont Street in Portland, OR.

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.

Book cover

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, 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.

See a review of Danielle’s book published in Newsweek here.

Tags: Book Signing, Danielle Levitt, Nemo, Nemo Design, NemoHQ

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