Vintage Ladies of the Night: New Orleans Red Light District, 1912 [NSFW]
Before Storyville of New Orleans shut down in 1917, it was the only legalized red-light district in North America, and French photographer John Ernest Joseph Bellocq took portraits inside of these storied brothels. The sensual, almost haunting shots…
Addison Scurlock and his sons Robert and George are three of the most significant photographers in American history. No, they weren't technical innovators or artistic trail-blazers. While they made portraits of great power and beauty, they were essentially good, solid commercial photographers. What makes them important is the body of...
Old photography fascinates me. It's the great recorder of how life was, the things people wore, the way people got around... it's the living historian that can't lie. But it's funny how the "good old days" are never the good old days when you're living in them. I could go put my camera in the same exact position and take photos of the same street scenes that you see here, but they would be insanely boring. But to a person living 100 years from now this photo would be pretty damn interesting…
