Thompson and Brown by George Dureau, Queer Art 1980s Conceptual Yeshiva Boy

Yeshiva Boy

A figure holds a pink umbrella and is in sharp contrast to the sunlight appearing in between buildings on her path

Documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement from the east coast to the Deep South

--> Provenance: Freed Estate

This is a gelatin silver press print

Thompson and Brown by George Dureau, Queer Art 1980s Conceptual Yeshiva BoyA black and white photograph, Thompson and Brown, c. 1980 by George Dureau is a 20" x 16" gelatin silver print, signed and titled recto (front of photo) below the image. Often compared to Robert Mapplethorpe's nudes, Dureau's classical photographs of homoerotic nudes predate Mapplethorpe's studies of black male models. In fact, Mapplethorpe collected Dureau's photography and Robert Mapplethorpe found much inspiration in it for his own work.