Matthew Leifheit

Your Giorgio presents 13 translations from the secret scrapbooks of George Platt Lynes made by artist Matthew Leifheit in the past year. These works—comprised of a collaged book, short short film, and original photographs of varying scale—attempt to reanimate the queer archive through various poetic approaches to documentary. Although the works draw upon photographs of the actual materials Lynes left behind, they remain assertively personal and elegiac.

Lynes scholar Allen Ellenzweig will read an unreleased chapter from his forthcoming biography on Lynes on Sunday, January 22nd, from 2 - 3pm. The event will be followed by a gallery talk from 3 - 4pm. Limited space, RSVP

Matthew Leifheit, a graduate student in photography at the Yale School of Art, is the publisher of Matte magazine. He holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and was formerly photo editor of Vice.

The archive-based works included in Your Giorgio have been generously supported by a research fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, as well as a grant from the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies.