Following in the footsteps of Allen Ginsberg and his “Snapshot Poetics”, McGinley turned his lens on the bodies and pastimes of his Lower East Side milieu, adding another generation to the History of Photography. This work, from the first years of this century, has given way to Ryan’s subjects running through and falling out of otherworldly utopian landscapes, caverns, forests and deserts; worlds away from the Chinatown tenements he still calls home. – Jack Woody, Twin Palms Publisher
Ryan McGinley (b. 1977) is a New York City based photographer. At 25, he was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of the hottest photographers of his generation, McGinley lived up to the buildup, making a splash with an energetic, timely, and personal collection of images in his first retrospective monograph, You and I, published by Twin Palms in 2011.
