George Dureau
Subtitle: the photographs
By: text by Philip Gefter ; editor, Chris Boot
Contributors: Gefter, Philip, writer of added commentary; Boot, Chris, editor, writer of supplementary textual content
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781597112840
Subjects: Portrait photography; Portraits; Amputees; Men; Artistic Photography; People with disabilities; Dwarfs; Photography of men; Photography of the nude; African Americans
Description: "George Dureau, The Photographs is an album of the great photographic portraits made throughout the 40 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 of black and disabled men, 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"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.