Lynes worked as a fashion photographer in his own studio in new york (which he opened in 1932) before moving to hollywood in 1946 where he took the post of chief photographer for the vogue studios. 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. Highly successful as a commercial photographer whose images filled the pages of vogue, harper’s bazaar, and other fashion magazines, george platt lynes also produced a private, voluminous body of homoerotic male nudes beginning about 1930—a taboo subject in a conservative time This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or.
George platt lynes, who inspired robert mapplethorpe, hid the male nudes But before he died, he sold them to alfred kinsey Lynes’ favorite explorations focused on the human figure in the form of male nudes and the principal dancers of the new york city ballet Choreographer george balanchine spoke highly of lynes’ work “his photographs have several lives of their own
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