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Everett subtly conjures the light and shade that frame scenes in Bellocq's mind: "The light from an open door cast a woman's shadow", beautifully suggests the photographer's loneliness and foreshadows his subsequent passion. Years later, the lights dying out on a riverboat and the smell of dead geraniums recall the closing of the brothels and the end of Bellocq's controlling force. There is something naive, patient and non-judgmental about the Bellocq Everett creates. One admirer comments that "he treated all the women the same way. They all seemed to live in an Inner Light--none was any more beautiful or ugly than another." With his fine eye for period detail, for evincing the smells and sounds of New Orleans, Everett makes the world of Bellocq fantastically present. Bellocq's relationships with women were unconventional, respectful and gently voyeuristic. Everett proposes that his daring, erotic photographs mark the most decisive and successful moments of his life--the portraits being the only way he could really "have" women in any lasting manner at all. --Cherry Smyth
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780099289197
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # zk0099289199
Book Description Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E J Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq s photographs have become famous, but the man . Seller Inventory # 594349882