Bellocq ( 1873-1949)
Photographs from Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans.

Jonathan Cape / Random house , London 1996
Edited by John Szarkowski.

Square hardcover, full black linen boards with blind stamped title on front cover and spine under illustrated dust jacket.

This expanded and revised edition of the famous 1979 MoMA’s exhibition catalog of prostitutes in the red-light district Storyville , New Orleans (around year 1912), has now 84 pages with 52 tritone plates, reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander.

This new edition is beautifully printed in magnificient tritone , it includes of course all 38 images from the first edition as well as the famous John Szarkowski’s essay/interview, but it also includes 18 new images and an introduction by Susan Sontag.

Preface by Lee Friedlander

In 1966 Lee Friedlander purchased the 89 original glass plates found in 1958 by Art Dealer Larry Borenstein.

Lee soon found he could not use his conventional method of printing, some research led him to an old printing technique, popular around the turn of the century called P.O.P. , Printing-out-Paper which has an inherent self-masking quality and who was regularly used for printing glass plates…

30 X 31 cm

Condition: near fine, in perfect condition, slit open only for verification .
150 €

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