ARTICLES BY RYAN MCGINLEY
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 MY TOP 10 ART FILMS
EYE TO EYE
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. Jack is in many of Mapplethorpe’s photos—he’s the guy in that one picture with the hard-on...
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  REMEMBERING DASH SNOW, JULY 14, 2009
It’s hard to remember exactly when I met Dash. It seems like we were immediately best friends. I guess I met him through Earsnot in the late 90s. Back then he 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. But they never got him. He somehow...
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 RYAN INC.
Photos by Ryan McGinley
Styling by Jaclyn Hodes & Annette Lamothe-Ramos...
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 EL HOMBRE ARANA
Ryan McGinley Gets Hoodwinked at the Mexico City ZooIn 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. These pictures were taken in November at the Mexico City Zoo...
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 THE KIDS WERE ALRIGHT
Selections From Ryan McGinley's Early Work, 1998-2003These 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...
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 DICK FACE
Why Is Jack Walls the Coolest Motherfucker on Earth?I spent two weeks making 500 hand-drawn balloons for Jack Walls’s 50th birthday party. It was my present to him. With a black Sharpie, I drew all of his classic expressions on 500 silver balloons. He’s well known for these sayings and everyone who knows him has their own Jack Walls imitation...
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 LILY WHEELWRIGHT
1982-2007Lily was my friend and my favorite person to photograph. She was my muse. She was everyone's muse, really. We spent months driving cross-country together. Sometimes we'd drive for 14 hours straight and she'd be making everyone friendship bracelets and we'd just talk the whole time. She was probably ...
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 WHO'S THAT ASS?
Please Meet Our Lovely Cover GirlsLily and Rebecca were shot by Ryan McGinley on one of the cross-country, all-nude photo-making trips he goes on every summer. Now you’ve seen their asses adorned with foxtails, but what’s inside their brains? Let’s find out! We know you care...
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 NUDE COLONIST
Ryan McGinley Makes the Nature SceneVice: So is the photo you took for this issue’s cover real?
Ryan McGinley: Yes. Lily got into a fight the night before I made that photograph and she got a black eye. We were in White Sands, New Mexico and I made that image during...
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 READING RAINBOW
Ryan McGinley's BookshelfCRACKERS
by Ed Ruscha (Heavy Industry: 1969)
Ryan: "This is a rare Ed Ruscha book. It's almost like a photo flipbook. Two men go into a hotel room and make this woman lie down...
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 VICE PICTURES
The Hugs 'N' Kisses IssuePhotos by Ryan McGinley
One afternoon in 1997 I was drawing the inside of a church for an art-school assignment. I was never really that good at drawing and I've always loved to cheat, so I got an idea. I went down to the pharmacy and bought a camera. I took some pictures of the church, got the...
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