George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 665
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780190219666
ISBN-13 : 0190219661
Rating : 4/5 (661 Downloads)

Book Synopsis George Platt Lynes by : Allen Ellenzweig

Download or read book George Platt Lynes written by Allen Ellenzweig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 This biography, drawing upon intimate letters and an unpublished memoir of Lynes's life by his brother, writer and editor Russell Lynes, paints a portrait of the emerging influence of gays and lesbians in the visual,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.


George Platt Lynes Related Books

George Platt Lynes
Language: en
Pages: 665
Authors: Allen Ellenzweig
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Intimate Companions
Language: en
Pages: 459
Authors: David Leddick
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-24 - Publisher: Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein played a major role in creating the institutions of the American art world fro
George Platt Lynes
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Steven Haas
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 p
When We Were Three
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: George Platt Lynes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 youthf
The Male Nude.
Language: en
Pages: 767
Authors: David Leddick
Categories: Male nude in art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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