{"product_id":"george-platt-lynes-the-daring-eye-hardcover-1","title":"George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllen Ellenzweig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorge Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye\u003c\/em\u003e is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Intending to pursue a literary and small press publishing career, Lynes also began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette. Soon, he turned exclusively to photography, establishing himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the early ballets of George Balanchine, and pursuing his private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes almost never published in his time. Lynes's private life was as glamorous and theatrical as his images with their brilliant studio lighting and dramatic Surrealist set-ups. Barely out his teens, he met the publisher Monroe\u003cbr\u003eWheeler who was already in a relationship with the emerging expatriate novelist Glenway Wescott. The peripatetic threesome maintained a polyamorous connection that lasted some 15 years. Their New York apartment became a mecca for elegant cocktail and name-dropping dinner parties. Their ménage-à-trois complicates our understanding of the pre-Stonewall gay \"closet.\" This biography, drawing upon intimate letters and an unpublished memoir of Lynes's life by his brother, writer and editor Russell Lynes, paints a portrait of the emerging influence of gays and lesbians in the visual, literary, and performing arts that defined transatlantic cosmopolitan culture and presaged later gay political activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllen Ellenzweig \u003c\/strong\u003eis a cultural critic and commentator who has published in numerous arts and general interest periodicals, including \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eArt in America\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the online journals \u003cem\u003eTablet\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. His landmark history, \u003cem\u003eThe Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu\/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1992. He is a regular contributor to the\u003cem\u003e Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\/Worldwide\u003c\/em\u003e and teaches in the Writing Program of Rutgers University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 664\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.01 x 9.31 x 6.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52463721742643,"sku":"9780190219666","price":99.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/T2hlM04zclNuWVk4emRGZ1lIRUdmdz09_5e2c50b9-46ed-4d92-ad14-abfc2778f7fd.webp?v=1759240613","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/george-platt-lynes-the-daring-eye-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}