George Valentine Dureau
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1980s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
People Also Browsed
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
1980s Contemporary Nude Photography
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Archival Pigment
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Watercolor
19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Panel, Oil
20th Century Photography
Silver Gelatin
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Photography
Paper
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
C Print
2010s Contemporary Photography
Archival Pigment
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Photography
Paper
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Panel, Oil
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Archival Pigment
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Photography
Other
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George Dureau was an American artist whose long career was most notable for charcoal sketches and black and white photography of poor white and black athletes, dwarfs, and amputees. Dureau was born to Clara Rosella Legett Dureau and George Valentine Dureau in the Irish Channel, New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in Mid-City. He graduated with a fine arts degree from LSU in 1952, after which he began architectural studies at Tulane University. Dureau briefly served in the U.S. Army. Before being able to survive as an artist, he worked for Maison Blanche, a New Orleans department store, as a display designer/window dresser. For the vast majority of his life, he lived in the French Quarter, where he was well known for his eccentricity and hospitality. His friend and student, Robert Mapplethorpe restaged many of his earlier black and white photographs. Many of his pieces are held at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Several of his works are displayed publicly throughout New Orleans, most notably, the pediment sculpture for Harrah's Casino and his cast-bronze sculptures stand sentinel at the entrance gates of New Orleans City Park. Dureau’s depiction of a Mardi Gras parade dominates one wall in Gallier Hall. One of his more popular set of works, Black 1973–1986, a series of black and white photographs concentrating on young black men, toured throughout the USA to rave reviews. Dureau died of Alzheimer's disease in 2014.
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Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.
Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.
Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.
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