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George Lynes Piatt
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In the mid 1920s George began doing portraiture. Since 1926 his publishing company, As Stable Publications, produced small books by such authors as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. In 1933 George opened a New York studio. Lynes contributed photographs to such publications as Town and Country, Harper's Bzaar, Vogue and Camera.
Often collaborating with the painter Pavel Tchelitchev, who would provide unusual back- grounds, L ynes 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. Working in large for- mat, he "showed striking ingenuity in working out poses and new uses of materials to express the character of the sitter," according to Beau- mont Newhall in The History of Photography.
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PUublications Books: Surrealism and American Art, 1931-1947, Jeffrey Weschler, 1977; The New York City Ballet, w/Martha Swope, text by Lincoln Kirstein, 1973. Anthologies: The Photograph Collector's Guide, Lee D. Witkin & Barbara London, 1979; The Julien Levy Collection, Witkin Gallery, 1977; Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection, David Travis, 1976; The Magic Image, Cecil Beaton & Gail Buckland, 1975. Catalogs: Seventeen American Photographers, Ebria Feinblatt, 1948 (Los Angeles County Mus.); International Photographers, 1932 (Brooklyn Mus.: N.Y .); Murals by American Painters and Photographers, 1932 (MOMA: NYC). Periodicals: "George Piatt Lynes," Camera, Feb 1956; Dance Index, entireissue, Dec 1944; "Studio Fashions," Philip Andrews, The Complete Photographer, 6:26, 1942.
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Born
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1955 (aged 47) -
Nationality
United States
Career
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1920
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1926
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1933