c. 1935
Studio stamp in ink, verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
9.125 x 7 inches (23.2 x 17.8 cm)
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Lieterature:
David Leddick, George Platt Lynes (Taschen: Köln, Germany, 2000), pp. 212, 229, full-page illus.
David Leddick writes: “[George Platt Lynes’s] photograph of John Ferencz becoming a tree may have some relationship to the story of the nymph who becomes a tree in order to escape her pursuer. The effect was accomplished simply by having the model pose behind a stark fragment of tree limb and removing, by retouching, the half of his lower body that protruded beyond the tree on one side.”
Work by George Platt Lynes (1907-1955)