George Dureau: The Photographs

About Philip Gefter

George Bureau was educated at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge (194652) and attended the School of Architecture Tulane University New Orleans (1952). His paintings drawings sculptures and photographs have been exhibited widely since the mid-1960s including at the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art New Orleans (1965); Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (1977); Osuna Gallery Washington D.C. (1979); Photographers Gallery London (1983); 291 Gallery Atlanta (1985); Jamison-Thomas Gallery Portland Oregon (1987); Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles (1991); Galerie Callu Mérite Paris (1997); and Higher Pictures New York (2012 2015) as well as multiple exhibitions of both photography and painting at Arthur Roger Gallery New Orleans since 1988. His photographs have been featured in many major group exhibitions including New Southern Photographs Burden Gallery Aperture Foundation New York (1989); The Nude New Orleans Museum of Art (1998); and most recently Reconfigure: Transformations of the Body Acadiana Center for the Arts Lafayette Louisiana (2012). Dureaus career has been the subject of retrospectives at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans (2006 2011) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2009). Prior to George Dureau The Photographs only one book of Dureaus photographs had been published: New Orleans (Gay Mens Press 1985). George Bureau was educated at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge (194652) and attended the School of Architecture Tulane University New Orleans (1952). His paintings drawings sculptures and photographs have been exhibited widely since the mid-1960s including at the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art New Orleans (1965); Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (1977); Osuna Gallery Washington D.C. (1979); Photographers Gallery London (1983); 291 Gallery Atlanta (1985); Jamison-Thomas Gallery Portland Oregon (1987); Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles (1991); Galerie Callu Mérite Paris (1997); and Higher Pictures New York (2012 2015) as well as multiple exhibitions of both photography and painting at Arthur Roger Gallery New Orleans since 1988. His photographs have been featured in many major group exhibitions including New Southern Photographs Burden Gallery Aperture Foundation New York (1989); The Nude New Orleans Museum of Art (1998); and most recently Reconfigure: Transformations of the Body Acadiana Center for the Arts Lafayette Louisiana (2012). Dureaus career has been the subject of retrospectives at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans (2006 2011) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2009). Prior to George Dureau The Photographs only one book of Dureaus photographs had been published: New Orleans (Gay Mens Press 1985). Philip Gefter was on staff at The New York Times for over fifteen years where he wrote regularly about photography. His essays are collected in the book Photography After Frank (2009). His biography of Sam Wagstaff Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe was published in 2014 (Liveright). He is currently at work on a biography of Richard Avedon. He lives in New York City.