Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- This intimate and quietly sensuous self-portrait was made in 1933, around the time that George Platt Lynes moved into a new studio in New York City. With printer and book publisher Monroe Wheeler and writer Glenway Wescott, whom he met when he was just twenty, Lynes had traveled back and forth to Europe for several years, experiencing the freedoms of Paris (where homosexuality was more widely accepted) and teaching himself photography. In 1932, a year before Lynes made this portrait, New York’s Julien Levy Gallery had shown his photo- graphs alongside the work of Walker Evans. Lynes gained recognition as a photographer of well-known artists, writers, dancers, and Hollywood celebrities. He was employed as a fashion photog- rapher, but he is perhaps best known today for his dramatic and provocative photographs of male nudes, which were not exhibited during his lifetime.
- Este autorretrato íntimo y sutilmente sensual fue creado en 1933, hacia la época en que George Platt Lynes se mudó a un nuevo estudio en Nueva York. Con el impresor y editor Monroe Wheeler y el escritor Glenway Wescott, a quienes conoció cuando tenía apenas veinte años, Lynes había viajado entre Europa y Estados Unidos durante varios años, disfru- tando la libertad de París (donde se aceptaba mejor la homosexualidad) y aprendiendo fotografía por su cuenta. En 1932, un año antes de este retrato, la Julien Levy Gallery de Nueva York había presentado las fotografías de Lynes junto a la obra de Walker Evans. Lynes alcanzó fama como fotógrafo de conocidos artistas, escritores, bailarines y celebridades de Hollywood. Trabajó como fotógrafo de modas, pero quizás hoy se le conoce más por sus fotos dramáticas y provocativas de desnudos masculinos, que no se exhibieron en vida suya.
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- George Platt Lynes, 15 Apr 1907 - 6 Dec 1955
- Sitter
- George Platt Lynes, 15 Apr 1907 - 6 Dec 1955
- Date
- 1933
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/Sheet: 23.6 x 17.6cm (9 5/16 x 6 15/16")
- Mat: 55.9 x 40.6cm (22 x 16")
- Type
- Photograph
