Storyville Exhibit (1996)
Louisiana: The State We're In
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Newsmagazine
Place Covered: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 1996-10-04
Duration: 00:09:20
Subjects: Museum exhibits | NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | Photography
Contributors:
- Collins, Robert Host
- Duhe, Jeff Reporter
- Maklansky, Stephen Interviewee
Description
This segment from the October 4, 1996, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Jeff Duhe’s visit to an exhibit of Ernest Bellocq’s photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, the red-light district in New Orleans from 1897-1917, at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). He interviews Stephen Maklansky, NOMA’s curator of photography. Please note that this video does include photographs of nude women.