If you wander into the back room at Jamison/Thomas Gallery this month, you might be in for a shock. Lined up over the gallery’s storage racks are a series of boldly composed photographs of nude black men and portraits of men with congenital deformities.
George Dureau began his career as a painter and draughtsman, and only later moved into photography. Today, however, it is probable that many more people know his photographs than are familiar with his paintings and drawings.
By Gene Thornton PHOTOGRAPHY New Orleans street people, neighborhood kids, dwarfs and athletes are the subjects of the handsome yet disturbing black-and-white portraits in George Dureau‘s first one-man show in…