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What he kept mostly to himself was his countless trips to Storyville, where he made portraits of prostitutes at their homes or places of work with his 8-by-10-inch view camera.
E. J. Bellocq. Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873–3 October 1949) [2] was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red-light district. [3] These have inspired novels, poems and films.
The body of Bellocq’s portraits has been dated to around 1912, a period of legal bordellos in Storyville (women lived in these houses and were subject to arrest for working outside the quarter). Although little is known about Bellocq, many believe that the pictures were taken at Lulu White’s Mahogany Hall (the wallpaper in some of the ...
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In 1896 New Orleans’s alderman Sidney Story attempted to manage the city’s rampant prostitution by creating a legally protected red-light district that became known as Storyville. Bellocq’s portraits of the district’s working-class women were virtually forgotten until the 1960s.
May 13, 2011 · Publications. E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits: Photographs from the New Orleans Red-Light District, circa 1912 Lee Friedlander and John Szarkowski, 1970 Clothbound, pages. E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits: Photographs from the New Orleans Red-Light District, circa 1912 Lee Friedlander and John Szarkowski, 1970 Paperback, pages. Licensing.
E.J. Bellocq is a mysterious figure in the history of photography. His photographs did not become well-recognized until nineteen years after his death, and little is known about his life or his creative intentions. Active as a commercial photographer in the 1910s, he made at least eighty-nine portraits of prostitutes in a brothel in Storyville ...
Storyville Portraits: Photographs from the New Orleans Red-Light District, circa 1912, edited by John Szarkowski. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970. front cover, p. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970. front cover, p.
