George Platt Lynes, the subject of the documentary Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes, was a noted fashion and Broadway and film star portraiture photographer of the 1930s and 40s. His great passion, however, was the male nude form. After his death in the 1950s at a very young age, his work was largely forgotten. Why? Such was the perceived erotic nature of his male nude photos that it was illegal at the time for prints and negatives to cross state lines. Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber were his artistic inheritors. In addition to his art, the documentary delves into the underground gay life of New York and Paris during his lifetime and the many emotional and romantic entanglements in which Platt Lynes was involved.
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