Author: George Platt LynesPublisher: Twelvetrees
ISBN: 9780942642001
Category : Photography of the nude
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
George Platt Lynes Photographs, 1931-1955
Author: George Platt LynesPublisher: Twelvetrees
ISBN: 9780942642001
Category : Photography of the nude
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
George Platt Lynes
Author: Jack WoodyGeorge Platt Lynes
Author: Jack WoodyPublisher: Twelvetrees
ISBN: 9780942642001
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This highly praised monograph was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the outstanding photography books of the year. As evidenced by the mythological series included in this first book of his work, Lynes stands as one of the great American Surrealists. His extensive work with portraiture and the ballet are invaluable documents of American cultural life during the thirties and forties. This book also includes perhaps the finest selection of Lynes' work with the nude figure. Although neglected for over three decades, Lynes must now be considered one of the great fashion, dance, and portrait photographers in the history of the medium. Essays by George Balanchine, Lincoln Kirstein, and Glenway Westcott are collected here.
George Platt Lynes Photographs
Author: George Platt LynesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780094264205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Georges Platt Lynes photographs
Author: George Platt LynesGeorge Platt Lynes
Author: George Platt LynesIntimate Companions
Author: David LeddickPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250104785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein played a major role in creating the institutions of the American art world from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The three created a remarkable world of gay aesthetics and desire in art with the help of their overlapping circle of friends, lovers, and collaborators. Through hours of conversation with surviving members with their circle and unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photos, David Leddick has resurrected the influences of this now-vanished art world along with the lives and loves of all three artists in this groundbreaking biography.
George Platt Lynes
Author: Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
When We Were Three
Author: George Platt LynesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Illuminating the adventures of this extraordinary "menage-a-trois" in Paris during the time between the World Wars, "When We Were Three" tells a story of youthful passion and enthusiasm that speaks both to the enduring ties that held Wheeler, Lynes, and Wescott together, as well as to a bygone era. 110 photos.
George Platt Lynes
Author: Allen EllenzweigPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019021967X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Intending to pursue a literary and small press publishing career, Lynes also began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette. Soon, he turned exclusively to photography, establishing himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the early ballets of George Balanchine, and pursuing his private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes almost never published in his time. Lynes's private life was as glamorous and theatrical as his images with their brilliant studio lighting and dramatic Surrealist set-ups. Barely out his teens, he met the publisher Monroe Wheeler who was already in a relationship with the emerging expatriate novelist Glenway Wescott. The peripatetic threesome maintained a polyamorous connection that lasted some 15 years. Their New York apartment became a mecca for elegant cocktail and name-dropping dinner parties. Their ménage-à-trois complicates our understanding of the pre-Stonewall gay "closet." This biography, drawing upon intimate letters and an unpublished memoir of Lynes's life by his brother, writer and editor Russell Lynes, paints a portrait of the emerging influence of gays and lesbians in the visual, literary, and performing arts that defined transatlantic cosmopolitan culture and presaged later gay political activism.