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previous Photograph of sex worker in a brothel in Storyville, New Orleans E. J. Bellocq’s c. 1915 photographic portrait is remarkable for the relaxed demeanour of the prostitute.
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below & opposite Defaced photographs of Storyville sex workers Two of a number of photographic portraits of prostitutes taken by Bellocq c. 1912 in which the women’s
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faces have been scratched out. It is not known who scraped out the faces but it is likely to have been Bellocq himself as the photographs were damaged while the emulsion was still wet.
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