Photographers - Part 78

 George Dureau, part 2

Earlier this month we saw some photographs by New Orleans photographer George Dureau (1930-2014).  Today we look at some more of his work.  He took many photos of black men, many of them nude.  Above, Jonas Williams, 1979.

This photo of Jordan Page, Emmitt Johnson and Gloria Johnson, 1983, is unusual for including a woman.  Almost all of Dureau's nudes were men.

Raymond Maxwell Hall.

Rico Fortune.

Dureau is unique in that he took many photos of dwarfs and amputees.  Above, Sonny Singleton.

Another little person, Stanley Hurd, 1983.

Wing Ding Crest, an amputee.

We end with another amputee, Wilbert Hines.

Dureau taught Robert Mapplethorpe, who is said to have been inspired by Dureau's amputee and dwarf photos, which showed the figures as "exposed and vulnerable, playful and needy, complex and entirely human individuals."

George Dureau died in 2014 of Alzheimer's, aged 83.