Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans
$200.00
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans (1996)
- Details: Photographs by E.J. Bellocq; Photographs printed by Lee Friedlander; Unsigned
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House
- Contents: 52 plates,
- Dimensions: 12.2 x 12 x 0.5 inches
- ISBN: 0679449752
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans contains portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans taken by photographer E.J. Bellocq (1873-1949) and printed by Friedlander, expanding on the 1970 book, Bellocq: Storyville Portraits: Photographs from the New Orleans Red-Light District, Circa 1912, which was published to coincide with a 1970 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The book contains an introduction by Susan Sontag, interviews by John Szarkowski, and a preface by Friedlander.