Hidden Master: the Legacy of George Platt Lynes
Sam Shahid
Documentary : 96' / Art & Artists, Bodies, Gay

Born in New Jersey, in 1907, George Platt Lynes was an aspiring writer, and at 18 he moves to Paris where he meets Gertrude Stein and Man Ray. He returns to study at Yale, but past a few months, in 1926, he moves to New York, where he discovers photography and starts taking pictures of celebrities, rapidly moving on to his extravagant fashion shots – where his surrealistic influence was evident. But his true passion resided in a much more obscure place: sex and the male nude. These photos, radically explicit for their time, only recently have been disclosed and appreciated, having had a radical influence on the work of contemporary photographers such as Herb Ritts or Robert Mapplethorpe. Focusing mainly on this less acknowledged side of Lynes’ work, Hidden Master: the Legacy of George Platt Lynes sublimely traces a parallel between the way the photographer lived his own sexuality, and how he transferred that desire into these photos, many of them as of today hidden in boxes, as per indication of Lynes himself, before his death at the age of 47. J.F.

/ EXHIBITION

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/ Details

Year: 2023

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Don Bachardy, George Platt Lynes II, Bruce Weber, William O’Connor, Rebecca Fasman, Jerry Rosco

/ Direction

Sam Shahid

USA


Sam Shahid became the creative director for the advertising agency for Calvin Klein in the early 1980s, helping to turn the brand into the internationally recognized name it remains today. In the early 1990s he did the same for Banana Republic, before opening up his own creative design firm and advertising agency. Throughout the aughts he was the Creative Director of Interview Magazine.


Filmography

2023 - Hidden Master: the Legacy of George Platt Lynes (Documentary) 


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