Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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An intimate look at a pioneering, openly gay artist, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. | dG1fQTg4d3NWeWZWOXc

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00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]

00:02 - You didn't really often see photographs of the male nude

00:05 from the 1930s.

00:08 - He created magic with his camera.

00:11 - George Pett Lyons isn't a household name.

00:14 - He became the most important fashion photographer in New

00:16 York.

00:17 He became the top of the game.

00:19 - An artist who should be in the canon, but is not.

00:23 - He is creating a world that looks

00:25 like the world of nobody else.

00:28 [END PLAYBACK]

00:30 - Why did we lose track of George Platt Lyons?

00:33 - George connected with the literary and art

00:39 world in New York.

00:40 - A circle of people who were central to the cultural life

00:45 of their time.

00:46 - George was famous for giving a lot of parties.

00:49 - He was an extremely luxurious man.

00:52 - He was able to get men who didn't

00:54 want to remove their clothes to remove their clothes.

00:58 - The nudes were an essential part of his work.

01:01 They were the heart.

01:02 - There is a lot of emotion.

01:07 There's a lot of authentic sexual energy.

01:11 - That was his art, and he wasn't

01:13 able to practice it legally.

01:16 - One could be jailed for this material.

01:22 - It was illegal to put the work in an envelope

01:25 and send it across state lines.

01:27 - It was hot and dangerous stuff.

01:31 - This is all that Platt Lyons prints.

01:36 - His legacy was sleeping.

01:39 - George Platt Lyons, perhaps now,

01:40 is on the radar more than ever.

01:43 - We see this world that's gone, that's lost,

01:48 but we see it through George's eyes.

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