S05017FP-PRETTY-BABY  -  Girl on Wicker Divan
Assemblage on vintage camera film plate holder. Size 5” x 7”.  Photograph by E. J. Bellocq, photographer of prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, circa 1912.  This photograph is of a young teenager that was the inspiration for the Louis Malle’ movie, Pretty Baby, staring Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon and Keith Carradine.  The movie portrayed the life of Bellocq and his friendship with the prostitutes in the brothels.   $65