[Male Nude]

George Platt Lynes

1930s · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

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.

Artist

George Platt Lynes

Date

1930s

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987