The Sleepwalker
George Platt Lynes
1935 · Gelatin silver print with applied media · Photographs
Lynes composed this picture from two negatives. The seams between them were airbrushed out so that his surprising anatomical conjunction would have the perfect aplomb of dream imagery. Alfred Barr's Museum of Modern Art exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism (1936) included The Sleepwalker, probably a copyprint made by Lynes from this original.
- Artist
- George Platt Lynes
- Date
- 1935
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print with applied media
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
![[Interior with Sculpture]](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/c4/c4c1ff2c794ea6f2bf7ddd04aaf98d047b31d8c448c86217e81346cad0f6e7c5/graph.webp)
![[Nude Girl Standing, Possibly Elizabeth Lynes]](https://d2pvxr3eb77vb4.cloudfront.net/assets/v1/67/67f5a391f2614ceb0693abd8ff6b373efc76f5b2ec97279746194a33fe621562/graph.webp)