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Author Le Veque, Mollie, author.

Title Images of sex work in early twentieth-century America : gender, sexuality and race in the storyville portraits / Mollie Le Veque.

Publication Info. London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International library of modern and contemporary art
International library of modern and contemporary art.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: (Self- )Representing Storyville Women Chapter 2: The 'White Slave' and the Question of Ambiguity Chapter 3: A Fog of Violence, Voyeurism, and Crime Chapter 4: The 'Paris-ification' of New Orleanian Vice -- Conclusion -- Notes Bibliography Index
Summary "Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn't apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq's depictions of Storyville's sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans' singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected gendered stereotypes of frailty and victimhood onto the women they portrayed. In Images of Sex Work, Mollie LeVeque interrogates these glib readings and argues that sex work was a routine aspect of life in a modern city. She supports this theory by examining a range of cultural forms such as crime fiction, illustrations and paintings from contemporary urban centres like Paris, London and New York. In doing so, she advances the new argument that Bellocq humanised his subjects, de-sensationalised sex work and gave these women the dignity they were all too often denied."-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Bellocq, E. J. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bellocq, E. J.
Criticism and interpretation.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Portrait photography.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
History.
Prostitutes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- Pictorial works.
Prostitutes.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject art photography.
Photographs: portraits.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Bellocq, E. J. Works. Selections.
Other Form: Print version: Le Veque, Mollie. Images of sex work in early twentieth-century America. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2019 9781788311786 (DLC) 2019285166 (OCoLC)1089218774
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