Details
E. J. BELLOCQ (1873–1949)
Untitled, Plate 27, from Storyville Portraits, 1911
gold toned printing out paper/gelatin silver print, printed later by Lee Friedlander
stamped with photographer's/Lee Friedlander Collection credit, initialed in pencil by Lee Friedlander (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 8 x 978 in. (20.3 x 25 cm.)
Provenance
Janet Borden, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998.
Literature
John Szarkowski, E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits, Photographs from the New Orleans Red Light District, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970, n.p.
Susan Sontag and John Szarkowski, Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, The Red-Light District of New Orleans, Random House, New York, 1996, p. 27.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2006.
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