Vendeur : Schulson Autographs, Ltd., Millburn, NJ, Etats-Unis
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Platt Lynes' Photograph of writer and friend Katherine Anne Porter is Signed by Porter and dated 1939. Platt Lynes had become a successful commercial photographer, but In his private life he was accumulating a fine collection of photographs of gay men which was donated to the Kinsey Institute after Platt Lynes death in 1955. He has since been recognized for his portraits of male nudes. This elegant image of Porter shows her in evening gown seated in profile with a bouquet in lower left foreground. She is posed next to the floral arrangement looking contemplatively towards the right. She signs in a free area of the upper right corner, "For.From Katherine Anne, Sprint 1939." "George Platt Lynes" with address is stamped on verso with docketing below in pencil indicating the photograph is that of Porter. The photograph measures 7 x 9 inches. Condition: Fine with slight bend at lower right corner. .
Vendeur : Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Etats-Unis
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Unbound. Etat : Very Good. Gelatin silver photograph. Image size 4½" x 6¾", on 7" x 9¼" card mount. Faint crack on mount and a little edgewear, image is about fine; mount is very good. Porter is posed looking particularly glamourous leaning on the back of a chair, facing the camera. Boldly Signed beneath the image "Katherine Anne Porter", with the name of photographer ("Lynes") under right corner. Beneath her signature Porter has Inscribed on the mount: "Especially for Dad - with the true love of his Child. Katherine Anne. December 1933." Porter's father raised Katherine Anne (then named Callie) and her three siblings after her mother's early death. Porter was particularly close friends with portrait photographer George Platt Lynes, the writer Glenway Wescott, and book designer and publisher Monroe Wheeler, who formed a close-knit domestic triumvirate. An arresting photograph with a significant association in the early days of Porter's career, after the meteoric critical success of her 1930 book *Flowering Judas.*.