{"id":16026,"date":"2014-11-22T03:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T02:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2014-11-22T03:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T02:48:58","slug":"george-platt-lynes-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/11\/22\/george-platt-lynes-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"George Platt Lynes revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesseloconnor.com\/exhibits\/GPLynes\/GPlynes1.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lynnes1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lynnes1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Untitled (reclining with bathing trunks), circa early 1950&#8217;s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photographs by George Platt Lynes have appeared here before, as have links to exhibitions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesseloconnor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wessel + O&#8217;Connor Fine Art<\/a>. The latter are showing prints by the former in a new exhibition that opens today, and if I&#8217;m unlikely to visit their gallery any time soon I still enjoy passing on the news. Unlike many of the gallery press releases I receive, the ones from\u00a0Wessel + O&#8217;Connor are always of interest, and their site is generous with its display of the work on offer. (They also sent me a card from their Czanara show which I was very pleased to receive.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesseloconnor.com\/exhibits\/GPLynes\/GPlynes1.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lynnes2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lynnes2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Buddy Stanley and Tex Smutney (1941).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of the prints on this occasion tend away from the artier side of Lynes&#8217; work towards outright beefcake (for the artier side, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/20\/balanchine-lynes-and-orpheus\/\">this post<\/a>). Among the nudes there&#8217;s one of the famous photos from a session Lynes made with Yul Brynner in 1942, pre-fame and with hair but sans clothes. See that photo, and more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesseloconnor.com\/exhibits\/GPLynes\/GPlynes1.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/20\/balanchine-lynes-and-orpheus\/\">Balanchine, Lynes and Orpheus<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/20\/the-recurrent-pose-17\/\">The recurrent pose 17<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/15\/george-platt-lynes\/\">George Platt Lynes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untitled (reclining with bathing trunks), circa early 1950&#8217;s. Photographs by George Platt Lynes have appeared here before, as have links to exhibitions at Wessel + O&#8217;Connor Fine Art. The latter are showing prints by the former in a new exhibition that opens today, and if I&#8217;m unlikely to visit their gallery any time soon I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/11\/22\/george-platt-lynes-revisited\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George Platt Lynes revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,12],"tags":[64,5197,4260,6703],"class_list":["post-16026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","category-photography","tag-beefcake","tag-george-platt-lynes","tag-wessel-oconnor","tag-yul-brynner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}