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Notes: 98 / 1 year ago from bookmarklet
![In the early 1900s, Ernest J. Bellocq carried his 8 x 10-inch view camera across Basin Street to photograph the women of New Orleans’ notorious district of legalized prostitution, Storyville. His private photographic project remained unknown until after his death, but eventually found its way to international acclaim. Yet virtually no prostitute portraits printed by Bellocq himself have surfaced. He kept his Storyville project secret from everyone except a few of his closest friends, and it remained secret until his glass negative plates were discovered languishing in a junk shop years after his death.
The cards hanging on the wall read, “Oh bébé please come,” “Oh dearie I give U much pleasure,” and “Dearie you ask for Marguerite.”
thanks to American Suburb X
[more plates from Storyville Portraits here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnjjr9Nof51qztk1wo1_r1_500.jpg)
In the early 1900s, Ernest J. Bellocq carried his 8 x 10-inch view camera across Basin Street to photograph the women of New Orleans’ notorious district of legalized prostitution, Storyville. His private photographic project remained unknown until after his death, but eventually found its way to international acclaim. Yet virtually no prostitute portraits printed by Bellocq himself have surfaced. He kept his Storyville project secret from everyone except a few of his closest friends, and it remained secret until his glass negative plates were discovered languishing in a junk shop years after his death.
The cards hanging on the wall read, “Oh bébé please come,” “Oh dearie I give U much pleasure,” and “Dearie you ask for Marguerite.”
thanks to American Suburb X
[more plates from Storyville Portraits here]
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Notes: 154 / 2 years ago from i12bent
Lee Friedlander (b. July 14, 1934) is one of the great American photographers…
Self-Portrait in Shadow, c. 1970
from i12bent
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Notes: 40 / 2 years ago from bookmarklet
Nude, 1980
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Notes: 56 / 3 years ago from mogadonia
![just LoveLy;]
Lee Friedlander tweaked by mogs
from mogadonia:]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktdebgi5gq1qzonn2o1_500.gif)
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Notes: 7 / 3 years ago from bookmarklet
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