Whistle for the wind - N. & Hickey, D Wakefield
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KORTE INHOUD
In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a SoHo gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled The Kids Are Alright . Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, who gave him a solo show a year later, making him the youngest artist to have a one-person exhibition at the museum.nnWhat critics, curators, and collectors would quickly discover was an artist who understood and chronicled his own generation as no other had. Compared early on to masters of photography and film, such as Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, McGinley's early work documents the lives of his friends-the hedonistic exploits of youth culture but without the dark undertone of earlier artists who mined similar themes. As he evolved, he began to create scenarios where he could explore different ideas (aesthetic and otherwise), and this led to his infamous summer-long ro...
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Text: EN. 240 p.. Ills.; 28 x 31 cm; 2,1 kg. Cover slightly damaged, fine copy | First Edition | Boekconditie: Fine | Condition of jacket: Good | Covertype: Hard Cover [Auteur: McGinley, Ryan / Kelsey, John / Van Sant, Gus / Kraus, Chris] [Uitgever: Rizzoli] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: Whistle for the Wind]
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239,(1)p., richly illustrated, orig. boards w. dustwr., 4to. [Auteur: McGinley, Ryan] [Pagina's: 239] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York, Rizzoli] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: Whistle for the Wind]
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In 2000, Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in an abandoned SoHo gallery. To coincide with the show, the artist created several handmade books featuring a sampling of his work entitled The Kids Are Alright. A copy eventually found its way into the hands of Sylvia Wolf, then a curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2003, Wolf mounted an exhibition of his work at the venerable institution, the youngest artist to ever have a solo show at the muse...
