"E.J. BELLOCQ: STORYVILLE PORTRAITS. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NEW ORLEANS RED-LIGHT DISTRICT, CIRCA 1912" par John SZARKOWSKI. Editions Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1979. Imprimé aux USA. Grand in-8, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo (état d'usage). Non paginé (86p). Texte en anglais, préface de Lee Friedlander, transcription d'échanges entre Lee Friedlander, Dan Leyrer, Al Rose, Bill Russell, Joe Sanarens, Johnny Wiggs, Adele, illustré de 34 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, hors texte, par E.J. Bellocq.

 

"E.J. Bellocq was a commercial photographer who worked in New Orleans before and after the first World War. A plausible guess might be that his working life reached from about 1895 through the first four decades of this century. The thirty-four pictures reproduced here are selected from a group of eighty-nine plates - portraits of Storyville prostitutes - which were discovered in Bellocq's desk after his death. These negatives were made about 1912. As far as is known, they constitute the only fragment of his work to have survived. The following discussion never took place as printed here. It is rather a synthesis of four long conversations recorded by Lee Friedlander in 1969, plus excerpts from a letter from Al Rose to Lee Friedlander, dated July 12, 1968. The source materials have been heavily edited, intermixed, and changed in sequence. I believe, however, that the participants' meanings have been accurately preserved. Editor's comments are in italics." John Szarkowski.

 

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