Dueling Photographers: George Dureau and Robert Mapplethorpe

by Jack Fritscher

This essential art history by eyewitness-participant Fritscher examines one of 20-century art's great questions of influence and mentorship - George Dureau to Robert Mapplethorpe- two icons colliding around race, primacy, and originality. In lively transcripts, beloved New Orleans painter-photographer-sculptor Dureau holds court on life, lensing black men, and mentoring Mapplethorpe. While ambitious student Robert eclipsed his teacher by inflecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890834696
• ISBN13: 9781890834692
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up