George Platt Lynes Day

It's time for our quarterly George Platt Lynes series, and we start with one of his nudes 

of Jared French which I have somehow not managed to post until now.

 

Fred Daniel

Fred Daniel posed for an unusually lighted GPL photo.

 

Peekaboo I

Here is the first of two peekaboo photos today.

 

Orpheus and Eros

This is Orpheus and Eros from 1938.

 

Alexander Jensen Yow and Friend

Alexander Jensen Yow is at right, but I couldn't find a name for his buddy.

Whoever he was, they look simply beautiful together, not to mention comfortable.

 

Carlos McClendon

This is Carlos McClendon in an exceptionally lighted image.

 

Blanchard Kennedy

That's Blanchard Kennedy stepping over the edge in an undate photo.

 

Peekaboo II

Here's another peekaboo shot that I like even better than the first one in today's set.

I think that is a classic 1940s jukebox the model is sitting on.

 

Contact Sheet

This is an image from one of Mr. Lynes' contact sheets which does not appear to have ever been made into a fully finished print.  I can't imagine why not, but then again, perhaps a beautiful

print is lurking in some collection somewhere waiting to be discovered.

 

Tex Smutney

This last one is a bit enigmatic.  That is definitely Charles "Tex" Smutney at left, but no name 

seems to have been given to the model at right.  Knowing George Platt Lynes, it could 

be Tex from a different distance with different lighting?  Or not.

 

Larry Carr Day

I recently was looking for "new" frontal nudes of Larry Carr, and I found only one, but I also found this publicity still on the movie database site IMDb.com.  Mr. Carr actually had some success in the movies in the period of 1949-1960, playing mostly bit parts and walk-ons.  He did, however, manage to make a decent living before moving to Brazil where he wrote and starred in a number of movies, mostly playing good looking Americans.  He returned to Hollywood in the mid-70s and got work once again in bit parts, often appearing as a nameless detective in a suit and fedora hat.  He also wrote two successful books on the femme fatales of the movies.  Anyway, today is Larry Carr day.

 

Kovert I

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AMG I

Mama Mizer's crystal punchbowl put in an appearance

 in the first of three AMG photos in today's set.

 

Kovert II

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Kovert III

Here we see Larry Carr with Tom Mathews (sometimes spelled Matthews) in a Kovert photo.

These two worked together for both Freddie Kovert and AMG, always looking great.

 

Denny Denfield

This semi-nude is by Denny Denfield.  I have a single frontal nude of Larry Carr by Mr. Denfield,

and I can't imagine him only making one of such an outstanding model.  I have not,

however, been able to find any more.  Anyone have any?

 

Kovert IV

Kovert item number four shows Larry Carr in a pose that a classmate of mine used 

in junior high school to recite poetry.  Of course, my classmate didn't 

look anywhere near that good, in or out of his clothes.

 

AMG II

The location for this AMG photo is often mistaken for the mansion where the classic film Sunset Boulevard was shot.  While it does look like it, the actual owner was a psychic who

traded the use of the place to physique photographers for free pictures.

 

Kovert V

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AMG III

Our closing shot of Larry Carr is another AMG product.  James IV at Men From Back Then once commented that nobody could fill a posing strap like Larry.  I miss James' posts every day.

 

Blake Little's Construction Nudes

Blake Little is a talented photographer who is still active and living in Palm Springs today.  

(He has published some stunning photos of contemporary bearish men, so some of you may 

want to look him up.)  After finishing art college, he moved from Seattle to Los Angeles 

where he completed one of his first themed sets of photos 1981-85.  He shot a variety of men 

nude in construction sites around LA, but didn't publish them in book form until many 

years later.  I will be presenting about a dozen of them today.   Above is the cover of the 

book featuring the model Steve, below a recent self portrait of Mr. Little.

 

Figures in Culvert and Doorway

I really like the juxtaposition of shapes and light 

in Figures in Culvert and Doorway.

 

Armando Framed by Plywood

This is Armando Framed by Plywood.  Armando appears 

at least two more times in today's series.

 

Ascending stairs

The model here is ascending stairs to . . . nowhere?

 

Ladders

My source didn't name this model, but I think he may be Armando.

 

Steve's Reflection

The cover man for the Construction Nudes book, Steve,

appears here in an excellent reflection shot.

 

Brion

The model here was given as simply "Brion."

 

Construction supply room

This looks like it was shot in a basement.  Mr. Little

called it "Construction Supply Room."

 

Armando

Wiltshire Boulevard in Los Angeles was the setting 

for Armando Pulling Curtain from 1981.

 

Steve Carrying Andre

This is Steve Carrying Andre.  Decades after the Construction Nudes photo shoot,

Blake Little tried to round up the models.  The only one still living for certain was Steve, 

the white (albino?) guy here.  Several, including Andre had died of AIDS.

 

No name

I don't have a name for our final model of the Blake Little set.