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Examines early practices of staged photography in visualizing queer forms of relation.   Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photography's conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self.

Black-and-white photography --- History --- Lynes, George Platt, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- PaJaMa (Artists' collective) --- 1930s and 1940s New York cultural landscape. --- 20th century. --- art history. --- early twentieth century queer culture. --- fire island. --- modernism. --- modernist movement. --- photographic collaborations. --- transatlantic avant-garde. --- world making.