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George Platt Lynes

Author : Allen Ellenzweig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190219661

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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 This biography, drawing upon intimate letters and an unpublished memoir of Lynes's life by his brother, writer and editor Russell Lynes, paints a portrait of the emerging influence of gays and lesbians in the visual,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.

Intimate Companions

Author : David Leddick
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250104785

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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 : Steven Haas
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847833747

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The elegant male nude photographs of George Platt Lynes, many never before published, from a newly discovered archive of negatives. George Platt Lynes was the preeminent celebrity portraitist of his day, shooting for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and creating distinctive photographs of iconic cultural figures such as Diana Vreeland, Salvador Dalí, and Orson Welles. But he also produced a separate body of work, kept largely hidden during his lifetime: photographs of the male nude. Many of these photos were shot in the studio and, like his fashion and dance work, were painstakingly posed and lit. They have a cinematic allure that evokes 1940s Hollywood and the lost era of New York’s café society. Many seem to illustrate some unwritten mythology. Others reveal private obsessions of the photographer, who was always alert to the sculptural qualities of a young man at his most vital. This is the only Platt Lynes book to focus on the male nude images in a comprehensive and carefully considered manner. It is the first book to be published with the cooperation of the artist’s estate, which has provided unprecedented access to institutional and private collections, including the Kinsey Institute and the Guggenheim Museum. The result: a trove of unpublished images that are sure to cause a sensation.

When We Were Three

Author : George Platt Lynes
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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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.

The Male Nude.

Author : David Leddick
Publisher :
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Male nude in art
ISBN : 9783822879665

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De l'image interdite à l'art : l'ouvrage de référence sur l'histoire de la photographie du nu masculin.

Ballet

Author : George Platt Lynes
Publisher : Twin Palms Publishers
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ballet
ISBN : 9780942642179

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The Homoerotic Photograph

Author : Allen Ellenzweig
Publisher : Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780231075374

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Gathered here are 127 beautiful and provocative duotone photographs that reflect the wide-ranging history of male homoeroticism as revealed by the camera--amply suggesting spiritual, physical, and intellectual exchange between men. To accompany these images, Ellenzweig offers a detailed account of the multiple and complex meanings of the homoerotic, from the 1850s to today.

The Young and the Evil

Author : Charles Henri-Ford
Publisher : olympiapress.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596541351

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Praised unflinchingly by Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, this stunning work, first published in 1933 by the Obelisk Press, Paris, is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler).