OUTwatch Monthly Film Series is BACK!
See Monthly LGBTQI Films at Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol
starting March 14th, 2024
AND…
OUTwatch Film Festival is June 8th
at Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol
The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
-One Night Only-
Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol
George Platt Lynes began his career photographing celebrities from the 1930s-50s. It's those portraits along with his extravagant fashion work that he's best remembered for today. However, George's heart, his passion, and his greatest talent lay elsewhere, in his work with the male nude. This work, sensuous and radically explicit for its time, has only recently begun being fully discovered and appreciated for the revolution that it represents - a man capturing his fantasies as a gift, a window to a future his camera saw coming before anyone else. HIDDEN MASTER features a stunning collection of photography uncovering the life of Lynes less known: his gifted eye for the male form, his long term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lasting influence as one of the first openly gay American artists.
