RYAN MCGINLEY
Expotition de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie 4 Janvier 2014 au 16 Février 2014
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McGinley Ryan McGinley (né le 17 octobre 1977) est un photographe américain new-yorkais. Il a commencé ses photographies en 1998. En 2003, à l’âge de 25 ans, McGinley était l’un des artistes les plus jeunes a présenter son salon au Musée Whitney d’Américain Art. Il a aussi été nommé le Photographe de l’Année en 2003 par le Magazine de Photo américain. En 2007 McGinley reçoit la Récompense Jeune d’Infini de Photographe par le Centre International de Photographie.
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WORK McGinley
had
his
first
public
McGinley’s early work ‘know what
exhibition in 2000 at 420 West
it means to be photographed. [...]
Broadway in Manhattan in a DIY
His subjects are performing for the
opening. Later, as a student at
camera and exploring themselves
Parsons, he started taking pictures,
with an acute self-awareness that is
which he put together in a book,
decidedly contemporary. They are
self published in 1999, called The
savvy about visual culture, acutely
Kids Are Alright. The book was titled
aware of how identity can be not only
after a film about The Who, was
communicated but created. They are
handmade and distributed to people
willing collaborators
he respected in the art world and sold at the exhibition. One copy was given to scholar and curator Sylvia Wolf, who later organized McGinley’s solo exhibition at the Whitney. Wolf, in an essay about McGinley, wrote, «The
skateboarders,
musicians,
graffiti artists and gay people in Mr.
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McGinley has been long time friends with fellow downtown artists Dan Colen and the late Dash Snow. McGinley said of Snow, «I guess I get obsessed with people, and I really became fascinated by Dash.» Ariel Levy, writing in NY Magazine about
McGinley’s
collaborator,
Dash
friend
and
Snow,
said,
«People fall in love with McGinleys work because it tells a story about liberation and hedonism: Where Goldin and Larry Clark were saying something
painful
and
anxiety
producing about Kids and what happens when they take drugs and have sex in an ungoverned urban underworld, McGinley started out announcing that ‘The Kids Are Alright,’ fantastic, really, and suggested that a gleeful, unfettered subculture was just around the corner—’still’—if only you knew where to look.»
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Since 2004, McGinley’s style evolved from documenting his friends in real-life situations towards creating settings where the situations he envisions can be documented. He casts his subjects at rock ‘n’ roll festivals, art schools, and street castings in cities. He shoots 35mm film and makes his photographs using Yashica T4s and Leica R8s. McGinley has drawn much inspiration from Terrence Malick’s film Days of Heaven. Critic Philip Gefter, in a 2007 feature about McGinley, wrote, «He was a fly on the wall. But then he began to direct the activities, photographing his subjects in a cinema-verite mode.
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‘I got to the point where I couldn’t wait for the pictures to happen anymore,’ he said. ‘I was wasting time, and so I started making pictures happen. It borders between being set up or really happening. There’s that fine line.’» In an April 2010 article in Vice Magazine, McGinley identified Gilles Larrain as one of his early influences, particularly Larrain’s 1973 book Idols.. Critic Jeffrey Kluger wrote in 2008, «Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley’s is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. Young and beautiful is as fleeting as a camera snap--and thus all the more worth preserving.»
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EXHIBITIONS As part of the museum’s First
The resultant photos, many of which
Exposure series, a showcase for
are densely saturated in the concerts’
new photography, McGinley had
colored lights, feature candid shots
had a solo show at the Whitney
of fans, regularly zooming in for
Museum in 2003. In recent years, his
seductive close-ups of enamored
photographs have been exhibited in
youngsters—a celebration of the
galleries and museums worldwide.
ecstatic cult of fame and its ardent
He has had solo shows at MoMA P.S.1
enablers.»
in New York (2004), in Spain at the
In 2008 he exhibited I Know Where
MUSAC in Leon (2005). In 2005, he
the Summer Goes, also at Team
was the laureate of the Rencontres
Gallery. Kluger, writing in TIME, said,
d’Arles Discovery Award.
«But his favorite subject remains
In 2007 McGinley exhibited his show,
youth, as his 2008 exhibit, ‘I Know
Irregular Regulars, at Team Gallery in
Where the Summer Goes,’ proves.
SoHo. Art critic David Velasco, in his
In that collection, McGinley’s troupe
review of the show, wrote, «McGinley
travels the country as he photographs
went on a two-year road trip, traveling
them, sometimes clothed and often
to dozens of Morrissey concerts in
not, while they leap fences, lounge in
the US, the UK, and Mexico.
a desert, play together in a tree.»
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In October 2010, McGinley opened
There he debuted two new portfolios
his
of black and white portraits and color
exhibition,
ÂŤLife
Adjustment
CenterÂť at Ratio 3 in San Francisco.
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