View Document |
printer-friendly version |
Rocky Mountain Online ArchiveTable of Contents |
 Three "Storyville Portraits" by E.J. Bellocq printed by Lee Friedlander (PP 6), circa 1911-1913University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.Email: spc@colorado.eduURL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/specialcollections/index.htm © 2008 University of Colorado
Biography / HistoryLittle is known about E.J. Bellocq or his work. Born in 1873, he was a commercial photographer in New Orleans from around 1895-1940. During the first World War, Bellocq worked for a local shipbuilding firm. Many of his surviving photographs, discovered in 1958 and printed by Lee Friedlander in the 1960s, were of the infamous but legal red light district called Storyville, which were then compiled together in the Storybook volume. Bellocq is also said to have photographed the opium dens of New Orlean's Chinatown, but no work of that survived. Scope and ContentThree "Storyville Portraits" by American photographer E.J. Bellocq (1873-1949), known recently from the 1978 Brooke Shields movie, 'Pretty Baby.' RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsThe collection is open for research. Copy RestrictionsLimited duplication of materials allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. Preferred CitationThree "Storyville Portraits" by E.J. Bellocq printed by Lee Friedlander (PP 6), University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept. Processing InformationKati Polodna, July 2008 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
