George Dureau : The Photographs

” This album of photographic portraits by New Orleans artist George Dureau (1930-2014), charts his forty-year romance with the male figure as subject. (…) 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-know among his contemporaries, and famously influencing the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, this is the first collection of his photographs to be published since 1985.” (extrait de la 4ème de couverture). Photos en noir et blanc.