E.J. Bellocq is remembered today for his early 20 th century photographs of Storyville prostitutes that became a sensation in the art world decades after his death. But in his lifetime, Bellocq was ...
The clichés of the whore with the heart of gold or the squalid prostitute fallen on hard times, abound in art, literature, and film. Marcuse “Cusie” Pfeifer is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in a world of ...
Art critic Doug MacCash on Friedlander and Bellocq In 1958 photographer Lee Freidlander rediscovered photographs by E. J. Bellocq of prostitutes in New Orleans notorious red light district Storyville ...
Just once in a while our experts come across an item that even *they* don't know about. Read about the E.J. Bellocq photos that stumped the specialists at ANTIQUES ROADSHOW's 2001 New Orleans event.
Few photographic series can generate as much critical discussion and conflicted response as E. J. Bellocq’s shots of Louisiana prostitutes. Taken between 1911 and 1913 in Storyville, the red-light ...