George Platt Lynes American 1907-1955
Walter Rockmer, 1940

£5,000

Silver print
Studio stamp and title (verso)
23.5 × 19 cm (45 × 38 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.