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Photographer
 
Photographer
  
==Notable Achievements==
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==Description==
  
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Commercial portrait, fashion, and commercial photographer, notably of ballet, gay artists, and nudes.  Despite his extensive collection of homoerotic and male nude photographs, he could not exhibit them because of the laws at the time.  Celebrity photos published in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.  Collection is held at the Kinsey Institute.  Subject of the documentary 'Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes' (2024).
  
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* [[LGBTQ Photographers]]
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* [[Prominent LGBTQ Portrait Painters and Photographers]]
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==Further Research/Reading==
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* http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/show3/lynes/lynes.html
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* http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2012/03/01/george-platt-lynes-exhibit-opens
  
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Latest revision as of 10:00, 27 October 2024

George Platt Lynes

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1907 - 1955

Occupation

Photographer

Description

Commercial portrait, fashion, and commercial photographer, notably of ballet, gay artists, and nudes. Despite his extensive collection of homoerotic and male nude photographs, he could not exhibit them because of the laws at the time. Celebrity photos published in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Collection is held at the Kinsey Institute. Subject of the documentary 'Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes' (2024).

See Also

Further Research/Reading


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