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Bellocq
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Oh. My. Goodness.
I love this book. I love it. I love it. I love it.
When I worked at the Historic New Orleans Collection Williams Research Center, I would often take this book out of the library and look it at my desk when I didn't have any pressing work to do. Sometimes I would go up into the stacks and grab this book and hide and look at it when I did have work to do. Sometimes I would make copies of photos from this book on the Collection's fancy copier machines.
I always wanted my own copy of this book.
The photos are gorgeous. The photos are of Storyville prostitutes from the early days of the 20th century, looking all plump and prettied up. I loved the striped stockings and old time underwear. I wonder about those women. Where did they grow up? How did they end up in New Orleans? How did each one feel about being a prostitute?
As fascinating as it was to look at the women, I am maybe even more fascinated by the rooms in which they were photographed. There wasn't a lot of extra shown in those rooms. These were not women getting rich from selling their bodies. From the looks of these rooms they lived in, they seemed to be barely getting by.
The Brooke Shields movie Pretty Baby was based on these women and Bellocq himself.
I love this book. I love it. I love it. I love it.
When I worked at the Historic New Orleans Collection Williams Research Center, I would often take this book out of the library and look it at my desk when I didn't have any pressing work to do. Sometimes I would go up into the stacks and grab this book and hide and look at it when I did have work to do. Sometimes I would make copies of photos from this book on the Collection's fancy copier machines.
I always wanted my own copy of this book.
The photos are gorgeous. The photos are of Storyville prostitutes from the early days of the 20th century, looking all plump and prettied up. I loved the striped stockings and old time underwear. I wonder about those women. Where did they grow up? How did they end up in New Orleans? How did each one feel about being a prostitute?
As fascinating as it was to look at the women, I am maybe even more fascinated by the rooms in which they were photographed. There wasn't a lot of extra shown in those rooms. These were not women getting rich from selling their bodies. From the looks of these rooms they lived in, they seemed to be barely getting by.
The Brooke Shields movie Pretty Baby was based on these women and Bellocq himself.
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