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March 28, 2012. Storyville. Seated woman wearing striped stockings, drinking "Raleigh" Rye. Wikipedia. In the decades after Reconstruction, sporting men came to New Orleans from across the...
19 lis 1970 · Storyville portraits : photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912 E. J. Bellocq, 1970 Out of print, 96 pages
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.
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.
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.
There are two publications of Bellocq's photographs: E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits (1970) and Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red Light District of New Orleans (1996), an enlarged reprint.
Title: [Storyville Portrait] Artist: E. J. Bellocq (American, 1873–1949) Printer: Lee Friedlander (American, born Aberdeen, Washington, 1934) Date: ca. 1912, printed 1980s–90s. Medium: Gelatin silver print from glass negative. Dimensions: Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Classification: Photographs
