WATCH: Uncovering the private, homoerotic portraits from early gay photographer George Platt Lynes
Subscribe to our daily newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Here, see some of it for yourself…A post shared by HIDDEN MASTER: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (@hiddenmasterfilm)A post shared by HIDDEN MASTER: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (@hiddenmasterfilm)A post shared by HIDDEN MASTER: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (@hiddenmasterfilm)Very cool, very sexy, and very of-the-moment, right?But the thing is, most of these photographs?
They’re nearly a century old!George Platt Lynes was an American fashion and commercial photographer whose career flourished in the 1930s and ’40s.
Much of his work—like that seen above—was radically intimate and explicit, clearly capturing the male form through the queer gaze.
Decades before the gay rights movement, mind you!He was undoubtedly ahead of his time, and is now considered to be the “archetype for an out, gay American artist.”However, it’s only recently that the breadth of his work has come into focus.
