Background
George Platt Lynes was born in 1907 in United States.
George Platt Lynes was born in 1907 in United States.
He was a self-taught photographer.
Beginning in 1926, his publishing company, As Stable Publications, produced small books by such authors as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He began doing portraiture in the mid- 1920s, opening a New York studio in 1933 and spending three years in Hollywood in the mid- 1940s. Lynes contributed photographs to such publications as Town and Country, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Camera.
Lynes devoted his personal work to male nudes, the ballet and surrealistic still lifes. He made his living doing advertising and fashion images as well as portraits, and sometimes worked with Julien Levy.
Quotes from others about the person
Working in large format, he "showed striking ingenuity in working out poses and new uses of materials to express the character of the sitter," according to Beaumont Newhall in The History of Photography.