E.J. Bellocq remains an ambiguous figure in history. Following his death in 1949, eighty-nine glass plate negatives of portraits of female prostitutes from Storyville, New Orleans’s semi-legal red-light district, were found in his desk. All of the images were taken circa 1912, and depict with surprising tenderness fashionable dressed and nude women in a brothel’s … Continue reading E.J. Bellocq