Male Nude (Carlos McClandon), George Platt Lynes, 1947
gelatin silver print, h 191mm × w 233mm
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© erven George Platt Lynes
From the 1930s on Lynes worked as a portrait and fashion photographer in New York and Hollywood. In this world of glitter and glamour, show and outward appearance, another aspect of his work – namely homo-erotically tinged nude studies – had to remain out of sight. Lynes feared that it would endanger his career. These male nudes only gained widespread publicity after his death.