More photos of Monroe Wheeler, 1899-1988, curator at Museum of Modern Art, lover of George Platt Lynes (and Glenway Wescott) for many years. Photos by George Platt Lynes

Gaudenzio Marconi

Pat Parris. Kovert of Hollywood

In the autumn of 1903, Carl von Platen, a wealthy member of a prominent aristocratic family in Stockholm—known in certain circles as the “Photographer Baron”—was summoned for questioning by the police.

Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988), curator at Museum of Modern Art, lover of George Platt Lynes (and Glenway Wescott) for many years. Photos by George Platt Lynes

Raoul du Gardier

Duncan MacGregor Whyte (1866-1953)

Otto Gebler (1838-1917) Standing Male Nude

Anonymous German Artist, 1900

Josef Jungwirth (1869-1950) Männer - Akt, 1900

Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929). Vincenzo Gemito, born in Naples in 1852, is considered to be the most important Italian sculptor of the late nineteenth century and is increasingly regarded as one of its greatest draughtsmen"

Józef Teofil Smoliński (1865 - 1927)

Józef Teofil Smoliński (1865 - 1927)

Nikolai Ge poses as Christ crucified in his studio at the Ivanovsky farm in 1892. Photograph by L. M. Kovalsky. Collection of I. I. Vydrin, St. Petersburg.

Schwunggymnastik, Hans Surén 1928

Australasian Photo-Review, 1926

Australasian Photo-Review, 1924

Frank Leight posing with two other competitors at a Mr America competition

1. Frank Leight full-frontal nude for Lon of New York. 2. Lon (right) and his first boyfriend Ralph Ehmke

Muybridge

Wilhelm von Gloeden

1941

1930

The photo is from the State Library of Victoria. The subjects are identified simply as ‘Group of men on the beach, several nude, with towels, ca. 1910 – ca. 1920

Vincenzo Galdi

Berlin: 'Akademie der Kuenste' school of Prof. Ehrentraut, 1901. Photographer: Hermann Boll

Clarence H. White (1871-1925). Untitled [Male academic nude] c. 1900

Ali Cemal at the School of Fine Arts, 1910

Atelier model ("Académie Julian"), Late 19th century