Toned gelatin silver print, printed in the late 1960s by Lee Friedlander 20 x 25,4 cm (7.9 x 10 in) Lee Friedlander's collection stamp and description stamp on the reverse LITERATURE John Szarkowski (ed.), J. E. Bellocq. Storyville Portraits, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1970, pl. 25. The Storyville district in New Orleans was not only the home of jazz, but also one of the few legalized red-light districts in the United States between 1896 and 1917. Bellocq's only surviving work, ‘Storyville Portraits’, is known only through the distinctive prints made by Lee Friedlander Friedlander bought the 8 x 10 inch glass negatives in 1966 from an art dealer and produced masterful contact prints on warm toned paper in the following years. In 1970 the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated a solo exhibition to the Storyville series.
Toned gelatin silver print, printed in the late 1960s by Lee Friedlander 20 x 25,4 cm (7.9 x 10 in) Lee Friedlander's collection stamp and description stamp on the reverse LITERATURE John Szarkowski (ed.), J. E. Bellocq. Storyville Portraits, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1970, pl. 25. The Storyville district in New Orleans was not only the home of jazz, but also one of the few legalized red-light districts in the United States between 1896 and 1917. Bellocq's only surviving work, ‘Storyville Portraits’, is known only through the distinctive prints made by Lee Friedlander Friedlander bought the 8 x 10 inch glass negatives in 1966 from an art dealer and produced masterful contact prints on warm toned paper in the following years. In 1970 the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated a solo exhibition to the Storyville series.
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