Naked men
Subtitle: pioneering male nudes, 1935-1955
By: by David Leddick.
Publisher: Universe Pub.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955.; Photography of the nude -- History -- 20th century.; Photography of men -- History -- 20th century.; Male nude in art.
Description: This book documents a moment in the history of American culture - a period in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s that gave birth to new notions of male beauty and desire, and to a new type of male icon. Long before Stonewall and the gay pride movement, there was a small group of men - both photographers and the models who sat for them - who helped pave the way for male sexual liberation.

Led by the photographer George Platt Lynes, the painter Paul Cadmus, and the arts patron Lincoln Kirstein, this group shattered taboos surrounding the artistic presentation of the male figure.
Notes: Includes index.