Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the red light district of New Orleans

An absolutely beautiful collection of Bellocq's Storyville portraits, reproduced in the highest quality from the prints made by photographer Lee Friedlander and with a famous introduction by Susan Sontag. This is a justly celebrated collection and this first edition is in lovely condition.\nE. J. Bellocq's photographs of Storyville prostitutes became famous in \n1970, when they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. \nBellocq was more or less unknown before that, but with the show and the \naccompanying book, his mysterious, hauntingly beautiful portraits \nreached a wide audience, and Bellocq became a celebrated figure in the \nhistory of photography.The Storyville portraits, which were made \naround 1912, constitute the only work of Bellocq's that is known to have\n survived. Eighty-nine glass plates were found some years after his \ndeath, and were eventually bought by the American photographer Lee \nFriedlander, who printed them for the show and book sponsored by the.