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[Marianne Moore, half-length portrait, facing left] / George Platt Lynes. – Historic Photograph Print

[Marianne Moore, half-length portrait, facing left] / George Platt Lynes., c1935 Feb. 1. — historic photograph
[Marianne Moore, half-length portrait, facing left] / George Platt Lynes., c1935 Feb. 1.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Marianne Moore, half-length portrait, facing left] / George Platt Lynes., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Marianne Moore, half-length portrait, facing left] / George Platt Lynes.

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Here the sitter is Marianne Moore, the modernist poet known for her precise, unconventional verse, and the portrait shows her in half-length, turned to the left. Moore had edited *The Dial* from 1925 to 1929, and by the mid-1930s she was an established figure in American literary circles. George Platt Lynes, who worked in New York and became known for portraits of writers, dancers and artists, made the picture around 1935. The print was submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office that year, which is why the record carries a copyright number and a photographer's stamp on the back.

Created / publishedc1935 Feb. 1.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 22.8 x 17.7 cm. (9 x 7 in.).
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Gelatin silver prints 1930-1940.
NotesJ16620 U.S. Copyright Office. Neg. no. 713A. Photographer's stamp on back of print. Copyright deposit; 1935.
SubjectsMoore, Marianne,--1887-1972.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,285 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178830

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