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“I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.”

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Ryan McGinley is an American photographer known for his works that focus on teenagers and natural landscapes. His photographs often have a dreamlike quality, capturing the carefree lifestyle of young people in natural settings. more

“In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.”

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“I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.”

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“When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.”

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