E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits: Photographs From The New Orleans Red-Light District, Circa 1912
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters of New Orleans' Storyville district, photographer E.J. Bellocq turned his lens on a world most sought to ignore — the women who lived and worked in the city's infamous red-light zone circa 1912. Storyville Portraits presents a remarkable collection of photographs that capture these women not as objects of scandal, but as fully human subjects: languid, defiant, tender, and occasionally playful, rendered with an intimacy that suggests genuine trust between photographer and sitter. Reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander and edited by John Szarkowski, this landmark volume rescues Bellocq's fragile glass-plate negatives from obscurity and reframes them as serious works of photographic art. Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this edition signals the critical establishment's recognition of Bellocq as a pioneering figure in documentary and portrait photography. Szarkowski's editorial vision and Friedlander's sensitive printing choices ensure that each image retains its haunting, irreplaceable quality — a window into a vanished subculture illuminated with quiet, radical empathy. For anyone captivated by the intersection of photography, social history, and the question of who gets to be seen, Storyville Portraits remains an essential and deeply provocative document.
Author: E.J. Bellocq
Format: Paperback
Published: 1970, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters of New Orleans' Storyville district, photographer E.J. Bellocq turned his lens on a world most sought to ignore — the women who lived and worked in the city's infamous red-light zone circa 1912. Storyville Portraits presents a remarkable collection of photographs that capture these women not as objects of scandal, but as fully human subjects: languid, defiant, tender, and occasionally playful, rendered with an intimacy that suggests genuine trust between photographer and sitter. Reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander and edited by John Szarkowski, this landmark volume rescues Bellocq's fragile glass-plate negatives from obscurity and reframes them as serious works of photographic art. Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this edition signals the critical establishment's recognition of Bellocq as a pioneering figure in documentary and portrait photography. Szarkowski's editorial vision and Friedlander's sensitive printing choices ensure that each image retains its haunting, irreplaceable quality — a window into a vanished subculture illuminated with quiet, radical empathy. For anyone captivated by the intersection of photography, social history, and the question of who gets to be seen, Storyville Portraits remains an essential and deeply provocative document.