Ryan McGinley is the hottest young photographer at the moment. He is the youngest to have a solo show at the Whitney. He is shooting for the hippest fashion magazines, like POP. Sigur Ros’s video for Gobbledigook is inspired by his work, particularly the series “I Know Where Summer Goes,” which is a great title, but McGinley borrowed it from a Belle & Sebastian song. His work has been likened to those of Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, and Wolfgang Tillmans. In fact, McGinley’s work does bring to mind Tillmans’s, without all the rawness that makes the latter’s images so compelling. For his “I Know Where the Summer Goes” series, McGinley took 16 models, 3 assistants and some fog machines across the US and shot 4,000 rolls of film, giving him 150,000 pictures, from which 50 were selected. I find whole construct so hollow and cynical. Tillmans, Goldin, and Clark never had to rely on models. Their work is their life, which is what makes them far more interesting.