George Dureau: “Black 1973-1986”

July 11, 2012 in Profiles, TALD

Only two days left

for George Dureau’s exhibition in New York City!!

George Dureau Laurence Patterson / c.1970s / vintage gelatin silver print / 20 x 16 inches

Highter Pictures presents “Black”, the first New York solo exhibition by George Dureau (B. 1930 New Orleans). The exhibition consists of fifteen photographs from 1973 – 1986 whose subjects are black males, all New Orleans locals.

George Dureau / Fred Tremnel / c.1970s / vintage gelatin silver print / 20 x 16 inches

New York Times

by Roberta Smith

on July 21st 2012

“The first New York exhibition of George Dureau’s black-and-white photographs, mostly of bare-chested or nude young men, is long overdue. Mr. Dureau, who was born in New Orleans in 1930 and has lived most of his life there, began taking them in the early 1970s. The photographs were partly intended as studies for his figurative paintings, which they tend to overshadow.”

“The 15 prints on view here concentrate exclusively on young black men, among them Short Sonny, a dwarf who sometimes favors turbans, and Alphonse Dotson, a former tackle for the Oakland Raiders, whose powerful upper torso and head are seen from the side as he looks slightly upward, open yet somehow resolute.”