[Rarebooks] FS: Photography: 3 by George Platt Lynes

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

1. Woody, Jack and Lynes, George Platt. GEORGE PLATT LYNES, 
PHOTOGRAPHS 1931-1955. Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1980. 129 pp., 
[2]. Illus. with 80 b/w plates. Folio. Black cloth (hardback).  First 
edition. No. 740 of 1,000 casebound copies. Wear to the bottom 
corners, else very good+ in a very good repaired dust jacket with 
small tears and chips. A bright, crisp copy.   [26906]  $250.00

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2. Lynes, George Platt. THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET: A PORTFOLIO OF 
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE PLATT LYNES. New York: Souvenir Programs, Inc. 
(1954). Unpaged. Illus. with over 25 b/w photos. 4to. Stapled paper 
wrappers.  First edition. 1955 Program laid in loose.  A very good 
copy, one signature loose, rear wrapper scuffed.   [26917]   $25.00

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3. Lynes, George Platt; Weiermair, Peter, ed. GEORGE PLATT LYNES. 
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, (1989). 122 pp. Bibliography. Chronology 
Illus. with 112 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Stiff paper wrappers.  First 
edition. Text in English, German and French. Some light yellowing to 
lower edge else a very good copy, tight and clean, with sharp plates. 
[26922]  $50.00

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George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), though heavily influenced by Man Ray 
and the surrealists, made his living as a celebrity and fashion 
photographer for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. "At the prime of his 
career during the '30's and '40's, George Lynes, as he was called 
then, was exceedingly handsome, charming and persuasive. He was also 
at the epicenter of a circle of powerful homosexual men that exerted 
influence at New York's artistic institutions. His early mentors were 
Monroe Wheeler, later the exhibition director at the Museum of Modern 
Art, and the writer Glenway Wescott, who provided Lynes with social 
cachet and business connections. An old school mate Lincoln Kirstein, 
later an arts impresario and a founder of the New York City Ballet, 
provided Lynes with commissions to photograph both George 
Balanchine's dances as well as the company's principal artists" 
(Vance Martin). This led to some of the finest documents on this 
great troupe. In the late 30's he began to explore the male nude in 
his homoerotic work. Before his death he destroyed nearly all of his 
fashion negatives and many of his nudes. "Lynes's surviving work, 
rediscovered 25 years after his death, established him as one of 
America's preeminent Surrealist-influenced photographers," Jack Woody.

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
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