Ryan McGinley

  • Bright Lights

    FUCK THIS LIFE

  • Gilles Larrain

    I can't remember when I first saw the book Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it's been a huge influence on me. Idols is one of the best photography books I've ever seen. It was published in 1973 and it's a collection of...

  • All The Young Nudes

    Selections from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Team Gallery, New York City, March 18-April 17. Dashwood Books is publishing a limited-edition monograph of this series in conjunction with the exhibition. It will be out on March 18

  • My Top 10 Art Films

    In 1989, Isabel Hegner asked Robert Mapplethorpe if she could make a documentary about him. He was really sick and at the end of his rope at that point, so he suggested she interview Jack Walls, his longtime lover and model, instead.

  • Remembering Dash Snow, July 14, 2009

    In the late 90s, Dash was a graffiti writer known as Sace. He and Earsnot started the graffiti crew IRAK. They were the biggest vandals in the city. He was number one on the vandal squad’s most-wanted list.

  • Moonage Daydream

    Photos by Ryan McGinley

  • Vice Fashion - Ryan Inc.

    Photos by Ryan McGinleyStyling by Jaclyn Hodes & Annette Lamothe-Ramos

  • El Hombre Arana

    In the fall of 2006 I was on the Morrissey Tour. I had been touring since March ‘06, traveling all over the world photographing his concerts and fans.

  • The Kids Were Alright

    These are photos from the fucked-up party days, from when Ryan first started taking pictures of all his crazy friends up to when he had his solo show at the Whitney Museum, which flung him like a wet young noodle into the boiling pot of the art world.

  • Dick Face

    I spent two weeks making 500 hand-drawn balloons for Jack Walls’s 50th birthday party. It was my present to him.

  • New Work By Ryan Mcginley