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George Platt Lynes American
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Highly successful as a commercial photographer whose images filled the pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and other fashion magazines, George Platt Lynes also produced a private, voluminous body of homoerotic male nudes beginning about 1930—a taboo subject in a conservative time.
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Title: [Male Nude]
Artist:
George Platt Lynes (American, East Orange, New Jersey 1907–1955 New York)
Date: 1930s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 24.5 x 18.9 cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Object Number: 1987.1100.311
Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of George Platt Lynes
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