American - Photographer | October 17, 1977 -
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
Ryan McGinley
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All I do is make photos. It's my life.
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I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
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I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.
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I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
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I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'
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I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.
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I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.
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It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
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I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.
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I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
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I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.
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