Author : E. J. Bellocq
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 9780679449751
An expanded and revised edition of the famous book of portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, the inspiration for the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. This new edition includes 52 tritone photos printed in a large format. The text from the original edition--by John Szarjowski, former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art--is reprinted here, along with a new Introduction by Susan Sontag.
Author : Natasha Trethewey
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
A collection of poems offers glimpses into the life and thoughts of an African American prostitute in pre-World War I New Orleans.
Author : Peter Everett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446412385
In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.In Bellocq's Women, Peter Everett performs as remarkable a feat of fictional reconstruction as he did in Matisse's War and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis. All we have of Bellocq are his photographs and a few fragmentary memories; in this extraordinary novel Everett not only brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationship with his mother and two young girls, one his landlady's daughter, the other a child whore - but also his world - the opium dens and bar rooms of New Orleans and the whore houses with their surreal combination of violence and homeliness.
Author : Brooke Bergan
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Naomi Jacobs
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780809316076
Can the novel survive in an age when tales of historical figures and contemporary personalities dominate the reading lists of the book-buying public? Naomi Jacobs addresses this question in a study of writers such as William Styron, E. L. Doctorow, and Robert Coover, who challenge the dominance of nonfiction by populating their fictions with real people, living and dead. Jacobs explores the genesis, varieties, and implications of this trend in a prose as lively as that of the writers she critiques. Using as a case study Robert Coover’s portrait of Richard Nixon in The Public Burning, Jacobs addresses the important legal and ethical questions raised by this trend and applies contemporary libel law to the fictionalization of living people, such as Richard Nixon. She closes her study by speculating on the future of this device and of the novel.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1932-07
Category :
ISBN :
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2010
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1438134363
This volume;examines contemporary African-American poets from the well-known writers of the late 20th century to the newly established and emerging voices of today.
Author : Marita Woywod Crandle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1467142549
At a time when women were denied opportunity, the lavish parlors of Storyville offered advancement for women who welcomed the vice. Mary Deubler, the Storyville madam who called herself Josie Arlington, more than welcomed carnal enterprise. A turbulent childhood forced her into a life of prostitution at an early age, but fueled by ambition, she opened a brothel that soon developed a dangerous reputation in a city famous for competitive iniquity. Devastating circumstances spun her into a new path lined with luxury. Her palace, the brothel she named the Arlington, cemented her legacy. An establishment filled with exotic girls, who added a rare air of refinement to its proffered debauchery, it allowed Josie to become something even rarer for her time: a self-made woman of vast wealth and influence. Author Marita Woywod Crandle charts Josie's rise while painting a vivid picture of New Orleans's red-light district.
Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 9789051834376
Author : Alma Davenport
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826320766
A compact, readable, up-to-date overview of the history of photography.
