A New Orleans Photographer’s Eye for Male Beauty and Imperfection

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A New Orleans Photographer’s Eye for Male Beauty and Imperfection
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From 2016: The best of George Dureau’s images do not have human “strangeness” at their center; they are about the artist’s curiosity.

I don't know why I assumed that the late George Dureau died of. Probably because he photographed the male body in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, and I just assumed that if the focus of your art was men back then you died—that your interest was fatal.

While Mapplethorpe recorded his idea of perfection, or the perfect picture, Dureau made a record of his own kind of Greco-Roman classicism, a museum-quiet world filled with Apollos without arms and legs, sometimes, but always astonishing torsos and heads.

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