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Yurek Shabelevsky October 1939 Gelatin Silver Print--483x600--300dpi.jpg

Yurek Shabelevsky by George Platt Lynes. October 1939. Gelatin Silver Print.

"An accomplished fashion and portrait photographer, Lynes began photographing dancers in 1935 for Lincoln Kirstein’s and George Balanchine’s American Ballet Company (now New York City Ballet). His arresting portrait of Polish dancer Yurek Shabelevsky, who toured the United States in 1939, reveals Lynes’s fine sense for posing and lighting the human figure and echoes of his interest in Surrealism—first forged as a student in Paris five years earlier. Here, the dancer’s inky silhouette contrasts with the unveiled face and torso. Lynes would continue to photograph the male body, both nude and clothed, throughout his career."
 

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The Sleepwalker - George Platt Lynes - Gelatin silver print w applied media.jpg

The Sleepwalker (1935) by George Platt Lynes.Gelatin silver print w applied media.

"Lynes composed this picture from two negatives. The seams between them were airbrushed out so that his surprising anatomical conjunction would have the perfect aplomb of dream imagery. Alfred Barr's Museum of Modern Art exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism (1936) included The Sleepwalker, probably a copyprint made by Lynes from this original."