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- By May 1955, Lynes had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Before his death, he transferred many of his photographs and his negatives containing male nudes to the Kinsey Institute.
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George Platt Lynes (April 15, 1907 – December 6, 1955) was an American fashion and commercial photographer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s. [1] He produced photographs featuring many gay artists and writers from the 1940s that were acquired by the Kinsey Institute .
Jun 3, 2019 · Platt Lynes, washing his hands of Los Angeles, returned to New York in 1948. The last seven years of Platt Lynes’ life seems to have been, at least in part, a frenzied dog paddle to stay ahead of an ever-rising swell of badly managed finances.
- Groundbreaking Photography
- Lynes’ True Passion
- A Friendship Forms
George Platt Lynes was born in New Jersey in 1907 and attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts, graduating in 1925. As a young adult, Lynes had a passing interest in photography, but his dream was to be a writer: he published a literary journal called The As Stable Publications and opened up a bookstore in New Jersey. Neither endeavor proved ...
Yet all along, Lynes had been taking photographs of the male nude. The naked male form has long been represented in fine art, mostly appearing in religious, athletic or classical contexts. Lynes’ interest in Greek classical representation of the male body– especially his focus on musculature – grounded his male nude photos in an accepted aesthetic ...
In the late 1940s, Dr. Alfred Kinsey had just published “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” and was busy building his collection of material culture related to human sexuality. Kinsey first learned of Lynes’ work through writer Glenway Westcott. Westcott, Monroe Wheeler and Lynes had been in a ménage à trois relationship for many years, and Westcot...
May 30, 2024 · Photographs of nude men by George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), the subject of a new documentary film, will be known to some and new to many. Lynes kept them secret during his lifetime.
Jun 28, 2024 · George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was a photographer so far ahead of his time that he single-handedly redefined the genre, through his fashion photography and his groundbreaking work in the realm of the male nude.
Jun 6, 2024 · Photographer George Platt Lynes, born in 1907, was self-taught but shot portraits of Gertrude Stein (she called him “Baby”), Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams and countless Hollywood ...
George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is Allen Ellenzweig’s new biography of the American photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. In 1925, at age 18, Lynes entered the world of American and British expatriates in Paris through the salon of Gertrude Stein.
