Bellocq : photographs from Storyville, the Red Light district of New Orleans / reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander ; introduction by Susan Sontag ; interviews edited by John Szarkowski.

By:

Bellocq, E. J

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 1996.Description: 84p. : ill. ; 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0224042645 :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

779.24092 20

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	770.92 BEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100677088

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bellocq has remained a famous enigma, after his extraordinary photographs were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970. He has appeared as a character in a novel and as the subject of a controversial fil, PRETTY BABY by Louis Malle. Nobody knows when or how he died. The glass plates, from which these photographes were made, are in the possession of Lee Friedlander. We hve re-edited from this archive to produce one of the most stunning and frank studies of Storeyville at its height.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

What little is known about E J Bellocq is that he was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1873 and died in 1949. He earned his living as a commercial photographer working for shipping companies. At the same time he was taking photographs of working women in the red-light district of Storyville circa 1912. Bellocq's images are one of the few visual records of the area to remain. Eighty-nine glass plate negatives were allegedly found in Bellocq's desk drawer after his death. The art dealer Larry Borenstein, along with Al Rose, bought the contents of Bellocq's studio. In 1966 the photographer Lee Friedlander purchased the glass plate negatives from Borenstein. The re-edited photographs are collected in the book Bellocq .