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Portraits of prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana
Title
[Portraits of prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana].
Production
New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1911-1913.
Physical Description
4 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 21 x 26 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date from stamp on versos.
Stamp on versos in English.
Provenance
From the collection of Lee Friedlander. Purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann Galleries sale, 2018 October 18, lot 67) on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2018.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
E. J. Bellocq (1873-1949), born John Ernest Joseph Bellocq, was a commercial photographer who worked in New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1902-circa 1940. Bellocq is best known for his photographs of prostitutes working in Storyville, the legalized red-light district of New Orleans.
Lee Friedlander (1934- ), American photographer, reproduced E. J. Bellocq's prints for Bellocq: photographs from Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans (London: J. Cape, 1996).
Summary
Photographs created by E. J. Bellocq of unidentified nude sex workers in Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1911-1913, and printed from his negatives by Lee Friedlander, circa 1970s.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 31, 2019
References
E. J. Bellocq, Portraits of Prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
E. J. Bellocq, Portraits of Prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
Occupation
Prostitutes Louisiana 20th century.
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