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Lot 968
Description:
Ernest J. Bellocq (American/New Orleans, 1873-1949), "Lady in Black Heels", silver gelatin print, unsigned, 10 in. x 8 1/8 in., unframed.
- Provenance: Provenance: Estate of Al Rose, New Orleans. Note: After Ernest Bellocq's death, a set of his glass plate negatives of prostitutes from New Orleans' notorious Storyville District was discovered. These glass plate negatives turned up in Sal Ruiz's antique shop and eventually came into the possession of Larry Borenstein. At the request of Borenstein, New Orleans photographer Dan Leyrer made a set of prints from the negatives in the early 1960s. This image is a Leyrer print. Borenstein stored the Bellocq negatives in the slave quarters behind Preservation Hall. Unfortunately, the negatives sustained water damage from a leaky roof during Hurricane Betsy in 1965. Reference: Susan Sontag, Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, the Red-light District of New Orleans, Random House: New York, 1970.
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September 13, 2009 11:00 AM CDT
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