In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a SoHo gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled "The Kids Are Alright." Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at t[...]

Ryan McGinley: The Kids Were Alright focuses on the photographer s early work from 1998 to 2003, the year of his solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. These early photographs and Polaroids many of which have never been exhibited or published document his friends and collaborators [...]