Olympic Swimmers
Series of 16 postcards of US Olympic Swimmers from the 2004 Summer Olympic Games sold in a white box with silver embossed title.
Ryan McGinley
Published (Self) 2004
16 Postcards - 6" x 4.25"
Limited Edition 500
Depicting the 2004 US Olympic Swim team, the photos featured in this
series of postcards were shot by Ryan McGinley for a special edition of
The New York Times Magazine, and resulted in one of the largest
portfolios the Times has printed. Totally infatuated with the result, we
couldn’t help but find a way to make this Olympic fare our own – and so
came this limited run of 500 post card sets. Each box of cards contains
16 prints profiling athletes like Diana Munz, Jenny Thompson, and Ian
Crocker, among portraits of before-they-were-stars Aaron Peirsol and
Michael Phelps, who had their breakthrough in these very Athens 2004
games.