Ryan McGinley, Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, 2026. Ryan McGinley spent a good chunk of last year photographing friends on the graveyard shift. In late August, he was in Central Park around midnight as three of his subjects stripped naked and splashed in Bethesda Fountain. As McGinley snapped away with a long lens, his strobe illuminating the fountain, a man emerged with a violin. “It was so beautiful,” says McGinley. “New Yorkers don’t bat an eye. They’re like, ‘Another day in New York.