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Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Storyville Portraits
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Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
E. J. Bellocq
1873 - 1949
Storyville Portraits
(Haywire Press, circa 1970), 50 gold-toned gelatin silver printing-out paper prints by Lee Friedlander from original glass-plate negatives by E. J. Bellocq, each initialed by Friedlander in pencil and stamped on the reverse, bound in two folio volumes, Folio, chamois covered albums with leather spine, gilt lettering, and slipcase
each image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)
Executed in 1911-13, printed circa 1970.
Collection of Lee Friedlander
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner
John Szarkowski, ed., E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970), all plates
John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 69
Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography (New York, 1984), p. 268, pl. 315
Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 19
