A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana - (Page 134)

Girl with Striped Stockings, 1912 Photograph; 9 x 8 in. © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco 134 LOUISIANA: THE NEW CENTURY E.J. BELLOCQ b. 1873, New Orleans, Louisiana d. 1949, New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans photographer Ernest J. “E. J.” Bellocq gained posthumous fame for his portraits of prostitutes made in Storyville, the legalized red-light district of New Orleans. Relatively little is known about Bellocq or his reasons for making the portraits; eighty-nine glass negatives for the photos were discovered after the photographer’s death. Though the photos appear to have been made around 1912, they did not come to the public’s attention until the early 1970s, when photographer Lee Friedlander exhibited them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and published a group of them in Storyville Portraits. LGP  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=477 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=477

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