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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Among the celebrities, striking young men that gays will want to check out in the Leddick book
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...
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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
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...
Published on November 4, 2000
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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,
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This review is from: George Platt Lynes Portraits 1927-1955 (Hardcover)
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Among the celebrities, striking young men that gays will want to check out in the Leddick book,
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This review is from: George Platt Lynes Portraits 1927-1955 (Hardcover)
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 END |
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George Platt Lynes Portraits 1927-1955 by George Platt Lynes (Hardcover - Oct. 1994)
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