Saturday, May 31, 2025

Bellocq

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art


E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Minneapolis Institute of Art

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Art Institute of Chicago

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Art Institute of Chicago

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Milwaukee Art Museum

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait - New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

from Willowware Cup

Plum in bloom, pagoda, blue birds, plume of willow –
Almost the replica of a prewar pattern –

The same boat bearing the gnat-sized lovers away,
The old bridge now bent double where her father signals

Feebly, as from flypaper, minding less and less,
Two smaller retainers with lanterns light him home.

Is that a scroll he carries? He must by now be immensely
Wise, and have given up earthly attachments, and all that.

Soon, of these May mornings, rising in mist, he will ask
Only to blend – like ink in flesh, blue anchor

Needled upon drunkenness while its destroyer
Full steam departs, the stigma throbbing, intricate –

Only to blend into a crazing texture.

– James Merrill (1972)