E.J. BELLOCQ: “The Last Days of Ernest J. Bellocq”

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The Last Days of Ernest J. Bellocq By Rex Rose In the early 1900s, Ernest J. Bellocq carried his 8 x 10-inch view camera across Basin Street to photograph the women of New Orleans’ notorious district of legalized prostitution, Storyville. His private photographic project remained unknown until after his death, but eventually found its way to international acclaim. Yet virtually no prostitute portraits printed by Bellocq himself have s…

E.J. BELLOCQ: “The Last Days of Ernest J. Bellocq”

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WALKER EVANS: “Scavenging the Landscape – Walker Evans and American Life” (1996)

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…f clerical jobs in the city. In the spring of 1926, with financial assistance from his father, he went to Paris with aspirations of becoming a writer. In Paris, Evans sought out the American ex-patriot community that included Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, T. S. Eliot, Man Ray and Abbott. Evans was a persona non grata among such luminaries, “a nobody.”(12) Although Rathbone breezes past this assertion, it is important to note how E…

WALKER EVANS: “Scavenging the Landscape – Walker Evans and American Life” (1996)

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

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…enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment …

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

 
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