The photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and dance impresario and writer Lincoln Kirstein, along with various friends and colleagues, were part of a group of influential figures in American art from the 1920s to the 1950s. Drawn from interviews and archival material, this book profiles their lives and those of their largely gay ...
A varied assortment of images from the career of the renowned photographer, including not only the fashion photography he was known for but his fine art photography and figure studies of male nudes--some considered too scandalous for exhibition during his lifetime.
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 ...
Long before Stonewall and the gay pride movement, a small, tightly knit group of daring men helped pave the way for male sexual liberation. Through extraordinary research, David Leddick has traced the modeling careers of these artists, writers, and photographers, from the 1930s to the 1950s, as they gave birth to new notions of male beauty and ...
The photographs in this title range from a homage to Greek mythology and athleticism to modern, urban eroticism. Looking at a collection of unpublicized work, the book explores the works of George Platt Lynes, known for his admiration for the male body and mastery of form.
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