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George Platt Lynes
Mel Fellini

1950

About the Item

Silver gelatin print, studio stamp (verso), 20cm x 23cm, (45cm x 46cm framed). The photographed behind museum quality, UV and non-reflective glass. A titan of American 20th century photography, Platt Lynes took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker, who explored sexuality and the body in an age that increasingly favoured abstraction. During his lifetime, Lynes amassed a substantial body of work involving nude and homoerotic photography. In the 1930s, he began taking nudes of friends, performers, and models, including a young Yul Brynner, although these remained private, unknown, and unpublished for years. Over the following two decades, Lynes continued his work in this area passionately, albeit privately. "The depth and commitment he had in photographing the male nude, from the start of his career to the end, was astonishing. There was absolutely no commercial impulse involved — he couldn't exhibit it, he couldn't publish it." (Allen Ellenzweig, introduction to George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes, published in 2011 by Rizzoli.)
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  • Creation Year:
    1950
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)Width: 18.12 in (46 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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  • Condition:
    The photograph has minor handling wear, in the top left and left side (towards the bottom), which is highlighted in the photos. these marks cannot be seen now the image is framed.
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: GPL, Mel Fellini1stDibs: LU2263211510602
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