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Trash

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1994

Signed on label, verso
Accompanied by a signed letter from the artist explaining the background of the photograph

Chromogenic print

70 x 30 inches, image

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The artist writes: “The portrait of Trash [taken in 1994], who was my roommate at the time, was shot in my living room at 188 S. Catalina Street, also known as Casa de Estrogen for the large amount of lesbians living in the place. Trash, now known as Tre, was a brilliant performer both on screen and in the clubs at the time in LA. I had started making portraits of my community in 1992 and continued the series to around 1995, photographing friends, both in Los Angeles and San Francisco. For everyone who sat for me a print was gifted to them out of the edition and not signed. This was my gift to them personally for trusting me with their image.”

Fabio Torre | “Between Painting and Photography,” Il Resto del Carlino

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From Letizia Gamberini’s article for the Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino:

All the artistic gulf of Torre—class of 1955, graduated in Art History at the Dams—is a long reflection on photography and analogue cinema in black and white[…] “I do not care much about photorealism, I’m looking to reproduce ‘the photographic,’ that is, the conceptual element that makes photography feel like what is not, which involves a lot of time and much preparation.”

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Browse all of Fabio Torre’s work at ClampArt

Orpheus and Eros

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1936

Studio stamp in black ink, verso

Vintage silver print

10 x 8 inches

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Literature:
Woody, Jack. George Platt Lynes: Photographs 1931-1955. 3rd ed., Twelvetrees Press, 1981, p. 69, full-page illus.

Orpheus (Nicolas Magallanes and Francisco Moncion)

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1948

Studio stamp in black ink, verso

Vintage silver print

8.5 x 7.5 inches

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Nicolas Magallanes plays Orpheus and Francisco Moncion is the Dark Angel from George Balanchine’s ballet “Orpheus” with costumes and set by Isamu Noguchi.

Literature:
Crump, James. George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. 1st ed., New York City, Bullfinch Press, 1993, p. 55, full-page illus. [another example]
Leddick, David. George Platt Lynes. Edited by Anatole Pohorilenko, Köln, Taschen, 2000, pp. 94-95, full-page illus. [related examples]

Mel Fillini #1

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1950

George Platt Lynes studio stamp in black ink, verso

Vintage gelatin silver print

9 x 7.5 inches

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Literature:
Crump, James. George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. 1st ed., New York City, Bullfinch Press, 1993, pp. 65-67 [three other examples]

Mel Fillini #2

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1950

George Platt Lynes studio stamp in black ink, verso

Vintage gelatin silver print

7.5 x 9 inches

$3800.00

Literature:
Crump, James. George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. 1st ed., New York City, Bullfinch Press, 1993, pp. 65-67 [three other examples]

Michael Jenson; 19 years old; Dallas, Texas; $20; and Jerry Imel; 18 years old; Wichita, Kansas; $20

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1990-2

Signed in pencil, verso

Chromogenic print (Edition of 20)

30 x 40 inches, sheet
23.25 x 36.125 inches, image

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Literature:
Peter Galassi, Philip-Lorca diCorcia (New York City: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 61, full-page color illus.
Philip-Lorcia diCorci, Hustlers (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2013), p. 63, full-page color illus.