George Platt Lynes scrapbooks.

ca. 1900-1955.

2 albums (ca. 225 photographic prints, 22 postcards, 427 clippings) (in 6 boxes) : b & w and color ; 38 x 43 cm and smaller.

Gift of Bernard Perlin, 1999.

Arranged in original order as received.

George Platt Lynes, American photographer.

Two scrapbooks, with loose pages and items, containing clippings, original photographic prints (by Lynes and others, including PAJAMA and Brassai), postcards, and reproductions of artworks. These volumes document Lynes's focus on photographic design elements and his developing aesthetic in his early years. Among the subjects represented are: Royal families; athletes; popular musical and film performers (with numerous images of Johnny Weismuller and Marlene Dietrich); nude models; Pavel Tchelitchew paintings and set designs; high fashion models; and humorous photographs from magazines. Ten of the loose pages feature contact prints of Lynes and his friends and family, including: Paul Cadmus; Katharine Anne Porter; Barbara and Lloyd Wescott; Adelaide Sparkman Lynes; Somerset Maugham; Jared French; Monroe Wheeler; and Glenway Wescott. Another loose page contains 26 prints of individuals posed as part of Max Ewing's "Carnival in Venice" series.

Available on microfilm from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

English

June 01, 2002

George Platt Lynes Scrapbooks. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

George Platt Lynes Scrapbooks. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.