Studio Visit | Ryan McGinley from the NYTimes

Larson F, 2010, gelatin silver print, 18 x 13.5 inches, edition of three

Ryan McGinley knows from adolescence. As the chronicler of (usually naked) misspent youth, the 32-year-old photographer has made a not-insignificant career out of capturing and exalting this most evanescent of states. T dropped by McGinley’s Chinatown HQ for a sneak peek of “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” his new exhibition of black-and-white nudes, which opens tonight at the Team Gallery in SoHo.

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Your last project, ”Moonmilk,” or the Cave project as it was better known, was such a radical departure for you in many ways, and this new show is certainly not what I was expecting. Unlike ”Moonmilk,” in which you pulled so far away and the nudes blended into the environment, here the black-and-white images are very up-close, and very old-school glamorous for you.