Ryan McGinley is at it again. Over the past 15 year McGinley has photographed several notable cover stories for the New York Times Magazine. In 2004 he previewed the Athens games with an issue on Michael Phelps and the American Olympic swim team. Four years later, he put together a portfolio of portraits of Oscar nominees and leading actors in time for the Academy Awards ceremony. He was back with the Olympic athletes in 2010 when he photographed America's team as they prepared to compete in Vancouver.
When I first began representing and showing McGInley, he was unknown. He photographed his circle of friends —the girls and boys in his pictures were often naked—and he called the resulting dreamy images "evidence of fun." Since then, "McGinley's vision has evolved and expanded into a tidal wave of influence, affecting the look of art, advertising, music videos, film, even Instagram—and making him arguably the most important photographer in America," according to Alice Gregory. We maintain the largest inventory of McGinley's seminal early work, which can be viewed here.