Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn''t apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq''s depictions of Storyville''s sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans'' singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected ...