New Sealed

Ryan McGinley

You and I

SIGNED Ryan McGinley

Twin Palms Publishers. 2011. Hardcover. With the dust jacket. SIGNED by Ryan McGinley on the half title page. 9 x 12 inches. 90 four color plates. 196 pages. Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Vince Aletti. New and sealed.

This is Ryan McGinley’s first retrospective monograph.

Ryan McGinley has selected the best photographs from his first decade of work for this beautifully realized volume. Ryan McGinley makes large scale color photographs of his friends, a group that forms part of New York’s Lower East Side youth culture. He uses photography to break down barriers between public and private spheres of activity. His subjects are willing collaborators: drawn from skateboard, music, and graffiti subcultures, they perform for the camera and expose themselves with a frank self-awareness that is distinctly contemporary.

This work signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which he is best known; he has been working in natural settings outside New York City, creating specific situations for his subjects to lose themselves in the moment. McGinley embraces nature as a site of freedom and captures a sense of buoyancy and release.

SIGNED Ryan McGinley.