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"The prominent US-American photographer Ryan McGINLEY, since the earliest days of his unparalleled career, has chronicled his friends and cohorts. Whether on the now legendary annual road trips he has organized with a large coterie of twentysomethings documenting summertime exploits or documenting the early gritty years in downtown New York, he is known as the consummate storyteller about freedom and abandon of youth.
A few years ago, however, he wanted to challenge his creative habits and asked more than one hundred of his friends and colleagues - guided by detailed instructions and a camera given to them by the artist - to take nude self-portraits using mirrors and other props. Though related to the ubiquitous selfie, the participants didn't have the benefit of seeing the image before they clicked the shutter. Furthermore, Ryan McGINLEY would make the selection of the final image to represent the photo session.
The experiment yielded scores of intimate and psychologically revealing photos and the photographic volume 'Mirror mirror' that - even though not done by his own hand - bear some signature he flourishes in their emotional depth and resonance." (© Rizzoli, 2018)