Untitled (Morrissey 7)

Details

Ryan McGinley (B. 1977)
Untitled (Morrissey 7)
signed 'Ryan McGinley' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
c-print laid on card
48 x 67¼in. (122 x 170.7cm.)
Executed in 2005, this work is number two from an edition of three

Provenance

Team Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Literature

Exhibited

New York, Team Gallery, Irregular Regulars: Ryan McGinley, 2007.
London, Saatchi Gallery, Out of Focus: Photography, 2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 4).

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Lot Essay

McGinley went on a two-year road trip, travelling to dozens of Morrissey concerts in the US, the UK, and Mexico. The resultant photos, many of which are densely saturated in the concerts coloured lights, feature candid shots of fans, regularly zooming in for seductive close-ups of enamoured youngsters—a celebration of the ecstatic cult of fame and its ardent enablers.

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