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Bellocq Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans
by Szarkowski, John & E. J. Bellocq & Susan Sontag & Lee Friedlander
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679449752
- ISBN 13
- 9780679449751
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-346: Random House. Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Random House, New York. 1996. 83 pgs. Illustrated with 33 Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine ends lightly scuffed). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The famous book of portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans and the inspiration for the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. The text is by John Szarjowski, former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art. John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (18731949) was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red light district. These have inspired novels, poems and films. EB; 12 X 0.5 X 12.25 inches; 83 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67558
- Title
- Bellocq Photographs from Storyville, the Red-Light District of New Orleans
- Author
- Szarkowski, John & E. J. Bellocq & Susan Sontag & Lee Friedlander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679449752
- ISBN 13
- 9780679449751
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- E-346
- Date Published
- 1996
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