Dueling Photographers

WINNER! INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD LGBT NON-FICTION 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 inflectin