In his twenties, after a trip to Paris, Lynes dropped out of Yale University and assembled a corps of connected friends...a love triangle with the book designer Monroe Wheeler and the then-famous author Glenway Wescott.
Lynes's pictures and the people in them are the focus of director Sam Shahid's Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes, which opens in select theatres and on Amazon and Apple TV on Friday (31 May).
When he failed to write anything of note, despite a sex life that could have filled volumes, he took up photography instead, first focusing on his celebrity acquaintances.
In Barr's massive 1936 exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism-a broad selection of applied Surrealism-Lynes's photo-montage The Sleepwalker (1935) showed a naked sleeping man on a platform above a nude male figure.
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