Body Language

The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa

Nick Mauss, Dr. Angela Miller, Anthony W. Lee

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University of California Press
07 November 2023

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Photography & photographs; Individual photographers; History; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Gay & Lesbian studies

Series: Defining Moments in Photography

Examining this innovative collaboration as a turning point in the history of photography and in queer American culture.

Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between photographer George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (painters Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). These enigmatic photographs—issuing from intimate private networks and queer sexualities—helped ground friendships and also found their way into the public worlds of fashion and fame.

Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. For these audacious artists, the camera was used not to capture, but to actively perform. Renouncing photography's conventional role as mirror of the real, Lynes and PaJaMa energized forms of worldmaking via a new social framing of the self.

By: Nick Mauss, Dr. Angela Miller, Anthony W. Lee
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520394612
ISBN 10: 0520394615
Series: Defining Moments in Photography
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 07 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nick Mauss is an artist whose recent exhibitions include Transmissions at the Whitney Museum and Intricate Others at Museu Serralves. Angela Miller has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American arts and culture. She is author of the prize-winning The Empire of the Eye.