During his lifetime, Lynes amassed a substantial body of work involving nude and homoerotic photography. In the 1930s, he began taking nudes of friends, performers and models, including a young Yul Brynner, although these remained private, unknown and unpublished for years.
Katherine Anne Porter, 1947
Boreas
Danae and the Shower of Gold
Acamas and Phyllis
Jean Cocteau, June 1936
nude (Bill Harris)
Lew Christiensen, William Dollar, and Daphne Vane performing Orpheus and Eurydice, 1936
Untitled Nude
Salvador Dalí, 1939
Helen Bennett with umbrella and mask, c.1938
from GEORGE PLATT LYNES PHOTOGRAPHS 1931-1955
