E. J. Bellocq
Storyville Portraits
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
E. J. Bellocq
1873 - 1949
Storyville Portraits
(Haywire Press, circa 1970), 50 gold-toned gelatin silver printing-out paper prints by Lee Friedlander from original glass-plate negatives by E. J. Bellocq, each initialed by Friedlander in pencil and stamped on the reverse, bound in two folio volumes, 1911-13, printed circa 1970. Folio, chamois covered albums with leather spine, gilt lettering, and slipcase
each image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2005
John Szarkowski, ed., E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970), all plates
John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 69
Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography (New York, 1984), p. 268, pl. 315
