Classic Photographs

E. J. BELLOCQ | UNTITLED (STORYVILLE PORTRAIT)

Auction Closed

October 3, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

E. J. BELLOCQ

1873-1949

UNTITLED (STORYVILLE PORTRAIT)

credit 'Photo by Bellocq' in ink, reduction notations and annotations in pencil, and with 'UAP #1 - Frontispiece' in ink on a label on the reverse, framed, circa 1912, probably printed posthumously in the 1960s

12½ by 10 in. (31.8 by 25.4 cm.)

Julie Saul Gallery, New York, 2007

Al Rose, Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1974), cover and frontispiece (likely this print)