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GEORGE PLATT LYNES PHOTOGRAPHS 1931-1955 |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Anonymous. Formes Nuo. Editions d' Art Graphique et Photographique, Paris 1935. Beaton, Cecil and Gail Buckland. The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day. Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1975. Camera-International Magazine for Photography and Motion Pictures. Portfolio. Volume XXVIII number 8, August 1949. Volume XXV number 2, February 1956. Dance Index. A monthly magazine published by Ballet Caravan Inc. (New York City Ballet). Begun in 1941 and featuring George Platt Lynes' photographs of individual dancers and company repertoire. Volume III number 12, December 1944 is a retrospective look at George Lynes' ballet photographs, including an essay by Lynes considering this particular aspect of his work. Dance. New York City Ballet Photographs from 1935 through 1955 Taken by George Platt Lynes, 1907-1956. A large portfolio tribute to George Lynes, published by the New York City Center of Music and Drama in 1957. Included are written tributes to the photographer by George Balanchine, Cecil Beaton, Edwin Denby, Christopher Isherwood, Lincoln Kirstein, John Martin, Marianne Moore, Dame Edith Sitwell, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Pavel Tchelitchew, Carl Van Vechten and Glenway Wescott. Dance. Time Magazine volume LXIII number 4, January 25, 1954. Cover article Choreographer George Balanchine. Photographs by George Platt Lynes. Dance. See also Kirstein, Lincoln and Wescott, Glenway. Dennis, Landt and Lisl. Collecting Photographs, Guide to the New Art Boom. E. P. Dutton and Company Inc., New York 1977. Ellenzweig, Allen. The Homosexual Aesthetic. American Photographer Magazine volume V, number 2, August 1980. Fashion Magazines.
Beginning about 1934 George Lynes regularly published fashion
and portrait photographs in Vogue, Harpers' Bazaar and Town and Country.
Listed are
several issues of Vogue containing representative examples of George
Lynes' magazine work. Feinblatt, Ebria. Seventeen American Photographers. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles 1948. Gruber, Fritz L., Famous Portraits. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. New York 1960. Hall-Duncan, Nancy. History of Fashion Photography. International Museum of Photography and Alpine Book Publishers. New York 1977. Hall-Duncan, Nancy. Photographic Surrealism. New Gallery of Contemporary Art. Cleveland 1979. Kirstein, Lincoln. George Platt Lynd Portraits, 1931-1952. The Art Institute of Chicago Gallery of Photography. Chicago 1960. Kirstein, Lincoln. The New York City Ballet. Photographs by Martha Swope and George Platt Lynes. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. New York 1973. Levy, Julien. Murals by American Painters and Photographers. Museum of Modern Art. New York 1932. Levy, Julien. Memoir of an Art Gallery. G. P. Putnam and Sons. New York 1977. Lynes, George Platt. Portraits Should Be Imaginative. Minicam 6, February 1943. Lynes, George Platt. Portraits by Lynes. U. S. Camera 4, November 1941. Lyons, Nathan. Photography in the Twentieth Century. George Eastman House of Photography. Horizon Press, New York 1967. Maddow, Ben. Faces: A Narrative History of the Portrait in Photography. New York Graphic Society. Boston 1977. Marks, Robert W. George Platt Lynes: Photographer of Fantasy. Popular Photography. December 1939. Marks, Robert W. They Chose Photography -- By Accident. Minicam LX, June 1941. Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day, revised and enlarged edition. Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the George Eastman House. Doubleday and Company, New York 1964. Pfeifer, Marcuse. The Male Nude in Photography. Vermont Crossroads Press. Vermont 1980. Prokopoff, Stephen. George Platt Lynes, Photographic Visions. Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston 1980. Rice, Shelley. The Male Nude, A Survey in Photography. Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery. New York 1978. Rolf. Pseudonym for Karl Mein, publisher of the homoerotic monthly Der Kreis (1932-1967) in Zurich, Switzerland. Lynes' photographs first appear in the July 1950 issue. In September of 1951 he began using the pseudonym Robert Rolf, continuing to send his images to the magazine until his death. Sullivan, Constance. Nude Photographs 1850-1980. Harper and Row, Publishers. New York 1980. (Plates 78 and 79 are misdated, should read circa 1951 and 1953 respectively.) Syberberg, Hans Jurgen. Fotografie der 30er Jahre, Einen Anthologie. Schirmer-Mostel. Munich, West Germany 1977. Travis, David. Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection, Starting with Atget. Art Institute of Chicago, 1977. U. S. Camera Annuals. George Lynes is regularly represented in these annuals, which began publishing in 1935. Wechler, Jeffrey. Surrealism and America in Art 1931-1947. Rutgers University Art Gallery. New Jersey 1977. Wescott, Glenway. Illustrations of Mythology. U. S. Camera number 2, January-February 1939. Wescott, Glenway. Two Hundred Portraits by George Platt Lynes Plus an Assortment of Less Formal Pictures of People. Pierre Matisse Gallery. New York 1941. Wescott, Glenway. George Platt Lynes and the Ballet Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston 1980. Wescott, Glenway. Fifty Photographs by George Platt Lynes. Julien Levy Gallery. New York 1934. Wheeler, Monroe. Twentieth Century Portraits. Museum of Modern Art. New York 1942. Windham, Donald. Tanaquil. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, New York 1977. (A novel with characters based on George Lynes (Joe Page) and friends.) Witkin, Lee. Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection. The Witkin Gallery Inc. New York 1977. Witkin, Lee and Barbara London. The Photograph Collector's Guide. New York Graphic Society. Boston 1979.
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