caption (image above): © Ryan McGinley, Parakeets, 2011.
© Ryan McGinley, Untitled (Black Bear), 2007
© Ryan McGinley, Coley (Running Rainbow), 2007
“The inspirational images for the project were culled from the kinds of amateur photography that appeared in nudist magazines during the 60s and early 70s. McGinley would sit with his models and look through all of the ephemera of the period that he had collected, discussing with them the mood that he was hoping to capture that day. McGinley had chosen a very specific itinerary that would bring his troop through the incredible range of landscapes that are available across the US and carefully planned a battery of activities, sometimes orchestrating the use of special effects. He has always been quite fond of fireworks and fog machines and in this new work they play a major
role.”
role.”
source: team gallery
More of Ryan’s work can be seen here
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