George Platt Lynes American 1907-1955
Mel Fellini, 1950

£5,000

Silver print
Studio stamp (verso)
20 × 23 cm (45 × 46 cm framed)

A major force in American 20th century photography, he took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker, who explored sexuality and the body in an age that increasingly favoured abstraction.