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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
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series International library of modern and contemporary art
International library of modern and contemporary art
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 16, 2019)
Subject Bellocq, E. J. -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Bellocq, E. J. fast
Subject Photography, Artistic.
Portrait photography -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
Prostitutes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- Pictorial works
art photography.
Photographs: portraits.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Photography, Artistic
Portrait photography
Prostitutes
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Bellocq, E. J. Works. Selections
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