thechrisproject photography

From Ben: 

There’s an interesting travel diary up on Interview by Ryan McGinley.

I’m not sure how I feel about McGinley’s work.  I like it.  I hate it.  I think it’s honest and I find it totally disingenuous.  It’s similar to how I feel about other “we’re young and naked and having the fun you wish you had,” type of art.  Dash Snow comes to mind in a half-assed way.  In looking at Snow’s wikipedia entry I see him mentioned in conjunction with McGinley, Nan Goldin and Larry Clark.  The Clark comparison seems appropriate but Goldin’s work seems totally different to me.  I’m guessing it’s because I know she shoots her friends and family and McGinley casts and hires models to go on a naked road trip.  In that context, McGinley’s work seems like the advertising version of Goldin’s.   Rose and Olive also come to mind though I know a lot less about them than Nan Goldin so it’s hard to place them on the McGinley to Goldin spectrum.  And, come to think of it, I don’t really know that much about Goldin.  Interviews and articles on the internet do not a relationship make.  

I look at a few hundred new photographs every day.  This one… well, pardon the expression, but it did in fact jump out at me.  Seen on The New Breed of Documentary Photographers.