{"id":51301,"date":"2017-05-04T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=51301"},"modified":"2017-05-04T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T10:01:03","slug":"ryan-mcginleys-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ryan-mcginleys-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are Ryan McGinley&#039;s 10 Rawest Images of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-19.43.08.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright \" width=\"996\" height=\"666\" \/> Tim and Dakota, 2004<\/p>\n<p>If the name Ryan McGinley is mentioned, it&#8217;s likely that the first thing you think of is nude figures frolicking around in the natural world among colours so saturated and striking that you&#8217;d swear they were fake. Well, the colour is real, and the photographs are a result of the New Jersey-born photographer&#8217;s legendary road trips across the American countryside which occur annually in the summertime.<br \/>\nNudity crops up constantly in McGinley&#8217;s early images &#8211; although arguably the raw nudity from his downtown Manhattan days is starkly different to the graceful, almost Renaissance-esque silhouettes of his more recent photographs. The difference between them being that one instance is staged, the other is not.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Kids Were Alright&#8221; features 1,500 never-before exhibited Polaroids and an array of previously unseen portraits and self-portraits taken between 1998 and 2003. It has been nearly two decades since these controversial images earned him a <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanmcginley.com\/the-whitney-2003\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solo show<\/a> an der <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=whitney&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a>, making him the youngest artist ever to have a solo show at the institution.<br \/>\nScroll down to see ten of McGinley&#8217;s most confrontational and raw images from his early twenties. His <a href=\"http:\/\/mcadenver.org\/ryan-mcginley-kids-were-alright\">Denver show<\/a> runs until 20 August 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-18.57.59.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" \/> Ryan (Head-Butt), 1999<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-18.58.57.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright\" width=\"994\" height=\"664\" \/> Sam Ground Zero, 2001<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-18.58.31.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright \" width=\"442\" height=\"665\" \/> Dan (Bloody Eye), 2002<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-18.58.42.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright \" width=\"997\" height=\"664\" \/> Cum, 1999<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-19.00.09.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright\" width=\"443\" height=\"664\" \/> Red Mirror, 1999<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-19.05.44.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright \" width=\"999\" height=\"664\" \/> Puke, 2002<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-19.00.39.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright \" width=\"999\" height=\"665\" \/> Agathe &amp; Dash (Black Leather), 2001<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-19.00.29.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright\" width=\"444\" height=\"667\" \/> Dash (Match), 2000<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-19.00.49.png\" alt=\"The Kids Were Alright\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" \/> Having Sex (Polaroids), 1999<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a look at the early images that earned him a solo show in the Whitney at age 25 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":51440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[8541,1955,6716,8064,2393],"class_list":["post-51301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-dash-snow","tag-guggenheim","tag-parsons","tag-ryan-mcginley","tag-whitney"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>These Are Ryan McGinley&#039;s 10 Rawest Images of Youth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We take a look at the early images that earned him a solo show in the Whitney at age 25\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ryan-mcginleys-youth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"These Are Ryan McGinley&#039;s 10 Rawest Images of Youth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We take a look at the early images that earned him a solo show in the Whitney at age 25\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ryan-mcginleys-youth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-04T10:01:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Violet Conroy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1\u00a0Minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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