Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
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)