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Description
The collection includes approximately 650 black and white photographs of ballets, dancers and choreographers from the earliest days of what would later become the New York City Ballet. Among the 49 dances in the collection are The cage (Robbins), ca. 1951, The duel (Dollar), ca. 1951, Fancy free (Robbins), ca. 1944, Firebird (Balanchine), 1949, La gloire (Tudor), ca. 1952, Les illuminations (Ashton), ca. 1950, Jones Beach (Balanchine), 1950, Orpheus (Balanchine), 1948, Swan lake (Balanchine), 1951, and Tyl Ulenspeigel (Balanchine), 1951. Personalities represented include Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Erik Bruhn, Alexandra Danilova, Margot Fonteyn, Martha Graham, Nora Kaye, and John Kriza.
Names
Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955 (Photographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1935 - 1954 (Approximate)
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZEB 98-4744
Topics
Ballet companies -- Dance photography
Balanchine, George
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987
New York City Ballet
Genres
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Notes
Acquisition: The albums were compiled by The Jerome Robbins Dance Division staff.
Biographical/historical: Photographer George Platt Lynes was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1907. He attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts, where Lincoln Kirstein was a classmate. Lynes set up his studio in New York City in 1932 and began taking photos for fashion magazines. In 1935, he was commissioned to photograph the dances and dancers of the American Ballet (later New York City Ballet), which he did through the early 1950s. Lynes also took many nude photos, mostly male. Lynes died in New York City in 1955 of lung cancer, at the age of 48.
Content: Alphabetical by title or surname.
Physical Description
Extent: 16 albums (approximately 650 photographic prints) : black and white ; 32 x 30 x 8 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20497345
MSS Unit ID: 23112
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6b3e47f0-acc5-0133-e3fa-00505686a51c
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