desimonewayland: George Platt LynesYurek Shabelevsky, October 1939Gelatin silver printThe Metropolit
desimonewayland: George Platt LynesYurek Shabelevsky, October 1939Gelatin silver printThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtPolish dancer Yurek Shabelevsky, who toured the United States in 1939, reveals Lynes’s fine sense for posing and lighting the human figure and echoes of his interest in Surrealism—first forged as a student in Paris five years earlier. Here, the dancer’s inky silhouette contrasts with the unveiled face and torso. -- source link