E. J. Bellocq

The photographs are marked by a kind of collaborative stillness, suggesting that Bellocq had earned not only access but trust.

E. J. Bellocq occupies a singular place in the cultural and photographic history of New Orleans, a figure who lived much of his life in obscurity yet left behind a body of work so haunting, so intimate, and so improbably preserved that it has since come to define the visual memory of Storyville. Born John Ernest Joseph Bellocq on 03-01-1873 in New Orleans to a French Creole family of some means,

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What Is A Reservoir Dog?

“You Shoot Me In A Dream, You Better Wake Up And Apologize.” – Mr. White

Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length debut. The question here is exactly what is a “reservoir dog”. There is not one answer to this question. Many people have spent the last 20-plus years trying to figure it out. Some believe that Tarantino will never reveal where he derived the title.

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