George Platt Lynes
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1907 - 1955
Occupation
Photographer
Notable Achievements
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.
