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The foreword to Aperture’s new book of portraits by George Dureau, written by Philip Gefter and informed by an endless range of material about the late photographer’s fascinating life, begins with a perfectly matched quotation from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. “I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself our guide,” Mann writes. It’s apt not least because it’s impossible to admire…
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