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Ryan McGinley Receives Infinity Young Photographer Award at the ICP award show and more....

Karl Lagerfeld, Ryan McGinley, and Tracey Moffatt
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It has been a busy couple of months for Ryan.. apart from ICP award.. Ryan had a 2 page aritcle written about him in the May 6th, Sunday New York Times, collaborated on a project for the CFDA awards and his much talked about Kate Moss  W magazine fashion story came out in June 2007.. See below for more info!

Ryan McGinley, recipient of the aptly named Young Photographer Award, allowed his sweet naitivity to shine through in his acceptance speech. I was told if I pictured all of you naked it would make being up here easier,he joked. But if that were the case, I'd need to take a picture. Fortunately for him, the audience, which included William Klein (honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award), Glenda Bailey, Kim Vernon, Kelly and Calvin Klein, Mark Seliger, Isabeli Fontana, Lisa Airan, Sadie Frost, Tracey Moffatt.

New York Times May 06, 2007

More CFDA/Swarovski Snippets

Ryan McGinley’s Swarovski Award video, which featured the designs of the womenswear, menswear and accessory nominees on naked, wan-looking models, all of whom were clearly unfamiliar with either razor or depilatory (let’s just say, there was plenty of old-school bush in the house, and none of it from Texas)
thefashionformer

A Young Man With an Eye, and Friends Up a Tree

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Kate Moss by Ryan McGinley for W

I was ecstatic to finally pick up the new issue of W magazine featuring Naomi Campbell's community service diaries (with an accompanying spread shot by Steven Klein). The highlight of the issue for me, strangely enough, is the shoot featuring Kate Moss in the English countryside. Wearing furs, Kate frolicks through the ethereal English countryside and is photographed by one of my favorite photographers, Ryan McGinley.

While the clothes themselves serve as an accessory to the composition (barely visible through fog, patchy smoke, and feathers) the shots are gorgeous and I love them. It's strange that W is featuring a wardrobe that consists predominantly of fur in a major editorial shoot for Summer, but Kate wears little else, so we can imagine at least that she's been topless all day and simply needed to cover up when dusk crept in.

It's a relief to see a photo shoot that doesn't tread so closely to becoming a catalogue layout.

For more photos from this shoot, pleas go to www.afgmanagement.com

*excerpt from here