New Orleans: 50 Photographs (1985)

• Published: GMP (Gay Men's Press), London, 1985
• Contributors: Introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith
• Edition: First edition (hardcover issue)
• Binding: Cloth, dust jacket
• Pages: 111 pp.
• Dimensions: approx. 20 x 20 cm (7.75 in square)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0-907040-83-7
• Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (price-sticker mark, wrinkling).

George Dureau was a painter first, a fixture of the French Quarter, who in the 1970s began photographing the men he drew: athletes, street boys, dwarfs and amputees, many of them Black men from the neighbourhood, posed with the composure of classical sculpture. New Orleans: 50 Photographs was published by the Gay Men's Press in London in 1985, with texts in English, French and German.

Edward Lucie-Smith's introduction asks the viewer to see Dureau's models, some of them disabled, as equals rather than objects of pity. The question of who is looking, and with what power, is as live in these pictures as in Mapplethorpe's, who is said to have been inspired by them. Philip Gefter's 2016 Aperture monograph has since returned Dureau to the centre of that conversation.