George Dureau: The Photographs - Hardcover

Gefter, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597112844 ISBN 13: 9781597112840

Publisher: Aperture, 2016

Synopsis

George Dureau, The Photographs is an album of the great photographic portraits made throughout the forty years of Dureau’s artistic career―a New Orleans romance between the photographer and his subjects. All of Dureau’s exquisite photographs, many of them nudes, were made in his studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans, or on the city’s streets. He began photography for the pleasure of photographing his lovers, and as research material for his paintings. Only later on did he begin to take his photographs seriously as works of art in their own right. Many of his subjects became part of Dureau’s “extended family,” whom he photographed on different occasions over many years. Surprisingly, only one book of Dureau’s photographs has been published: New Orleans, 1985, a modest paperback long out of print. This Aperture book is possible now because of the commitment of the community of Dureau’s supporters to see it happen. George Dureau, The Photographs is edited by Chris Boot, with a text by Philip Gefter.

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Review:

"George Dureau, The Photographs" reiterates Dureau s talent and legacy through one of the first complete collections of his groundbreaking imagery. "Issue Magazine"

sumptuously illustrated "The New Orleans Advocate" "

George Dureau, The Photographs reiterates Dureau s talent and legacy through one of the first complete collections of his groundbreaking imagery. Issue Magazine
sumptuously illustrated The New Orleans Advocate"

From the Back Cover:

This album of photographic portraits by New Orleans artist George Dureau (1930-2014), charts his forty-year romance with the male figure as subject. Dureau s photographs of men are described by Philip Gefter in his introductions as clear-eyed, humble, and sincere; whether clothed or nude, they appear natural and unself-conscious before his camera. He portrayed his models, many of whom were black, disabled, or both, with a tender regard his gaze steady and tinged with a playful eroticism their poses evoking classical figures of allegory and myth. Well-known among his contemporaries, and famously influencing the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, this is the first collection of his photographs to be published since 1985.
Philip Gefter is the author of Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (2014), and the essay collection Photography After Frank (Aperture, 2009)."

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1597112844
• ISBN 13: 9781597112840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168