Bellocq's Women

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'...