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If his images of ships and landmark buildings were not noteworthy, the pictures he took in Storyville are instantly recognizable today as Bellocq portraits—time capsules of humanity, even...
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Mar 19, 2018 · Mar 19, 2018. 5 min read. From Basin to Backatown: The Untold Story of Storyville. Storyville, New Orleans. Basin Street parallels Rampart Street and neighbors the historic French Quarter and St. Louis Cemetery #1.
May 16, 2017 · Storyville: Madams and Music, now at the Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC), explores this complex history through photographs, maps, manuscripts, and architectural remnants, like...
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Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873–3 October 1949) 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. These have inspired novels, poems and films.
Eighteen photos have been added to the thirty-four that were included in Storyville Portraits, put out by the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 on the occasion of a survey of Bellocq’s work. The frontispiece is new: a charming picture of two women in their underwear playing cards in an opulent room.
by Charles L. Franck Photographers. The Historic New Orleans Collection, The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection, 1979.89.7341. View Next Page. Situated in the city’s Fourth Ward, the approximately ten square blocks that defined Storyville extended from the uptown side of Customhouse (now Iberville) Street to the uptown side of St. Louis ...
