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HISTORY. The Portrait of Sensitivity: A Photographer in Storyville, New Orleans’ Forgotten Burlesque Quarter. The Big Easy’s red light district had plenty of tawdriness going on—except when...
Storyville portraits;: Photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. A collection of photographs, Bellocq’s collection is of a number of prostitutes who worked in Storyville.
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Oct 21, 2011 · October 21, 2011 1910s, female, life & culture, New Orleans, portraits. Before Storyville of New Orleans shut down in 1917, it was the only legalized red-light district in North America, and French photographer E. J. Bellocq took portraits inside of these storied brothels.
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.
- American
- New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- Photographer
- John Ernest Joseph Bellocq, 1873, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
May 16, 2017 · Mugshots of prostitutes from 1910 in Storyville show solemn, weathered faces, while nearby portraits by E. J. Bellocq, whose nude and clothed photographs of the Storyville women were...
- Allison Meier
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.
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.
