George Platt Lynes
Photographer, Visual Artist
1907 – 1955
Who was George Platt Lynes?
George Platt Lynes was an American fashion and commercial photographer.
Born in East Orange, New Jersey to Adelaide and Joseph Russell Lynes he spent his childhood in New Jersey but attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. He was sent to Paris in 1925 with the idea of better preparing him for college. His life was forever changed by the circle of friends that he would meet there. Gertrude Stein, Glenway Wescott, Monroe Wheeler and those that he met through them opened an entirely new world to the young artist.
He returned to the United States with the idea of a literary career and he even opened a bookstore in Englewood, New Jersey in 1927. He first became interested in photography not with the idea of a career, but to take photographs of his friends and display them in his bookstore.
Returning to France the next year in the company of Wescott and Wheeler, he traveled around Europe for the next several years, always with his camera at hand. He developed close friendships within a larger circle of artists including Jean Cocteau and Julien Levy, the art dealer and critic.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1907
East Orange - Also known as
- George Lynes
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Berkshire School
- Yale University
- Lived in
- East Orange
- Died
- Dec 6, 1955
New York City - Resting place
- Woodlawn Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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