George Platt Lynes Portraits 1927-1955 [Hardcover]

George Platt Lynes (Author), Jack Woody (Editor)

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From Library Journal

After the publication of George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute (LJ 11/1/93) and a touring show of Lynes's photography in 1994, this once-forgotten American photographer seems to be regaining recognition. Particularly with this volume, the artist proves deserving of rediscovery. While Portraits does not carry the insightful essay or range of photographs included in the Kinsey collection's book, it does highlight the photgrapher's very best work, reproduced as lavish, full-page, sheet-fed gravures. With subjects including Paul Cadmus, Gertrude Stein, and Igor Stravinsky, the photos show the full range of Lynes's stylistic pallette, indicating the influence of surrealism, his fashion- and dance-photography innovations, and his experiments with the nude form. A worthy addition to larger photography collections.
Eric Bryant, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 132 pages
• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers; First Edition edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944092276
• ISBN-13: 978-0944092279
• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 11.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #804,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A slim book of grainy photographs, November 4, 2000

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Back in the 1980's. I was given a book of George Platt Lynes' photographs as a birthday present. It was a superb collection which I lost when I moved from Boston to Portland, OR back in 1990. I have recently begun trying to locate a similar book of Lynes' work. This book isn't it. The portraits are interesting enough but I do not understand why this book is so intentionally grainy in quality and so very slim! It's a good book for those interested in photography in general, but I feel it will be a disappointment to those who already appreciate the greatness of George Platt Lynes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Among the celebrities, striking young men that gays will want to check out in the Leddick book, May 18, 2010

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In this black and white book (1994), the moody photographs are almost full page. They are matte finish, not glossy, and certainly not grainy. The book was printed in Japan and there are no page numbers and no Index. Lincoln Kirstein provides a short introduction. There's a Selected Bibliography; a Chronology for Lynes (1907-1955; prior to his death from lung cancer, he destroyed large portions of his negative and print archives); and Acknowledgements (many of the photos herein were preserved by friends over the years, but there are also sizable collections elsewhere). Lynes and his circle are well covered in David Leddick, Intimate Companions, paper 2001).

THE PORTRAITS

Frederick Ashton, W. H. Auden

George Balanchine, Nelson Brinkerhoff, Reginald Beane, Kay Boyle, Erik Bruhn, Herbert Bliss

Colette, Rosemary Carver, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Lew Christensen, Paul Cadmus, Aaron Copland, Fidelma Cadmus, Sandy Campbell, Rory Calhoun

James Leslie Daniels, Alexandra Danilova, Scott Douglas

T. S. Eliot

Denham Fouts, Ruth Ford, Jared French, Frederick Franklin, Edna Ferber, E. M. Forster

Andre Gide, Martha Graham, Edmund Gwenn, Farley Granger, Alexander Grant

Katharine Hepburn, Marsden Hartley, Bill Harris, Charles Howard, Edward Hopper

Christopher Isherwood, William Inge

Randy Jack, Louis Jourdan

Lincoln Kirstein, Victor Kraft

George Platt Lynes, Gaston Lachaise, Eugene Loring, Lotte Lenya, Nelson Lansdale, Burt Lancaster

Nicholas Magallanes, Marie-Jeanne, Alicia Markova, Bill Miller, Somerset Maugham, Robert McVoy, Marianne Moore, Francisco Moncion, Carlos McLendon, Thomas Mann, George Montgomery

Isamu Noguchi

Alfonso Ossorio, Sono Osato

Frederick Prokosch, Bernard Perlin, Katherine Anne Porter

Gertrude Stein, Edith Sitwell, Mai-Mai Sze, Gloria Swanson, Saul Steinberg, Tex Smutney, Igor Stravinsky, Ted Starkowski

Pavel Tchelitchev, Tamara Toumanova, Yves Tanguey, George Tichenor, George Tooker, Jonathan Tichenor

Immanuel Velikovsky

Lloyd Wescott, Barbara Wescott, Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler, Tennessee Williams, Donald Windham, Evelyn Waugh

Jensen Yow

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