The gritty reality of downtown New York City life has been an irresistible subject for artists, writers, and the creatively inclined for decades. The photographer Ryan McGinley, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, documented the antics and daily activities of his crew of friends and collaborators, and in the process created a new myth of the downtown artist. This book is destined to be a classic portrait of this incredible moment in time.
This is the only book on McGinley's early photographs whose pioneering, documentary-style work is often compared to that of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. It is these works that are the foundation of his critical and popular acclaim, and which garnered him a Whitney Museum solo retrospective at the age of 25.
