Ernest James Bellocq

♂ *1873-1949 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Storyville Portrait

prostitutes from New Orleans's Storyville neighborhood, from 1912 printed later by Lee Friedlander

Deborah Bell Photographs, New York (US)
15 Feb 2020 – 28 Mar 2020
The Red-Light District of New Orleans

Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln (DE)
21 May 2005 – 30 Aug 2005
The Mysterious Monsineur Bellocq

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
10 Dec 2004 – 27 Feb 2005

Group

Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
6 Dec 2024 – 14 Jul 2025

with Anonymous, Felicita Felli Maynard
Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
6 Dec 2024 – 14 Jul 2025

with Anonymous, Felicita Felli Maynard
Long Story Short

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
24 Oct 2019 – 18 Jan 2020

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Charles Hippolyte Aubry, Romare Bearden, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Liz Deschenes, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Katy Grannan …
True to the Eyes

The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection

The Image Centre, Toronto (CA)
23 Jan 2019 – 7 Apr 2019

with Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Diane Arbus, Brassai, Edward Burtynsky, Jim Goldberg, Mary Ellen Mark, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz
ON AIME L'ART...!!

La Collection agnès b. près de 400 œuvres de la collection d’agnès b.

Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)
6 Jul 2017 – 5 Nov 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Absalon, Leila Alaoui, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Kenneth Anger, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Roger Ballen, Cecil Beaton, Abdelkader Benchamma, Richard Billingham, Eric Bouttier …
Werkstatt für Photographie 1976 – 1986

And Suddenly this Expanse / Und plötzlich diese Weite

Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
11 Dec 2016 – 19 Mar 2017

with Arthur Ann Segan, Eugene Atget, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Edward S. Curtis, Thomas Deutschmann, Walker Evans, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Seiichi Furuya, Andre Gelpke …
LOOK AT ME!

Da Nadar a Gursky: il ritratto fotografico nella Collezione d’Arte UniCredit

Unicredit Pavilion, Milano (IT)
20 Dec 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

with Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elisabetta Catalano, Luigi Ghirri, Andreas Gursky, Man Ray , Christian Marclay, Felix Nadar, Barbara Probst, Gerhard Richter, Weegee
Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections

Art Museum Toronto, Toronto (CA)
6 May 2016 – 30 Jul 2016

with Iain Baxter, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Rebecca Belmore, Richard Billingham, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Harry Callahan, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynne Cohen, Anne Collier …
Where: The Exploration of Photographs and Place, 1843-2014

A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans (US)
23 Oct 2014 – 31 Jan 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Dimitry Baltermants, Margaret Bourke-White, Wynn Bullock, Keith Carter, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, Lynn Davis, Lisette de Boisblanc …
Finders Keepers

To celebrate the gallery's 20 years

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (GB)
11 Dec 2012 – 31 Jan 2013

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Roger Ballen, Polly Borland, John Deakin, Desiree Dolron, Denise Gruenstein, Charles Jones, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Enrique Metinides, Daido Moriyama, Tod Papageorge …
Photography Rotation 8

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
13 May 2011 – 12 Mar 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Robert Adamson, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Dimitry Baltermants, Lewis Baltz …
Gwangju Biennale 2010 - 10,000 Lives

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
3 Sep 2010 – 7 Nov 2010

with Pawel Althamer, Anna Artaker, Tauba Auerbach, Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Nayland Blake, Irina Botea, Duncan Campbell, Jacques Charlier, Anne Collier, Roberto Cuoghi, Keren Cytter …
They knew what they wanted

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1 Jul 2010 – 21 Aug 2010

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jim Dine, Lee Friedlander, Peter Hujar, Richard Misrach, Garry Winogrand
Southern Exposure: Photographs of the American South

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
19 Mar 2010 – 30 May 2010

with Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Danny Lyon, Marion Post Wolcott, Alec Soth
Sammlung FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria im MdM Salzburg

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
20 Jun 2009 – 5 Oct 2009

with Robert Adamson, Diane Arbus, Edouard Baldus, Herbert Bayer, Felice Beato, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Arthur Benda, Bisson Freres, Karl Blossfeldt, Howard Bond, Margaret Bourke-White, Renata Breth …
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph

International Center of Photography - Year of Fashion

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
16 Jan 2009 – 3 May 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Shelby Lee Adams, Sid Avery, Tina Barney, Ilse Bing, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Larry Clark, Mark Cohen, Bruce Davidson, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), Walker Evans …
Faces

Ritratti nella fotografia del XX secolo

Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca (IT)
14 Nov 2008 – 31 Jan 2009

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Diane Arbus, Larry Clark, Edward S. Curtis, Jitka Hanzlova, Dorothea Lange, Boris Mikhailov, Ugo Mulas, Arnold Newman, Bill Owens, August Sander, Malick Sidibe …
La trajectoire du regard

Salle d'exposition du quai Antoine ler, Monaco (MC)
24 Feb 2006 – 22 Mar 2006

with Hans Bellmer, Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Marcel Broodthaers, Chargesheimer, William Christenberry, Paul Citroen, Frantisek Drtikol, Harold E. Edgerton, Hugo Erfurth, Walker Evans, Walker Evans …
64 Degrees of Separation

A Sequence of Photographs from the Permanent Collection

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
1 Apr 2005 – 26 Jun 2005

with Diane Arbus, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Harold E. Edgerton, Philippe Halsman, Peter Keetman, Helen Levitt, Man Ray , Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Jennifer Shaw, John Vachon, Eva Watson-Schütze
Collection Agnès B

Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (FR)
9 Apr 2004 – 14 Jun 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Kenneth Anger, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Barry, Madeleine Berkhemer, Richard Billingham, Michel Blazy, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Emanuel Bovet, Brassai, Roderick Buchanan …
The Eye Club

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
4 Sep 2003 – 29 Nov 2003

with Chuck Close, Richard Misrach, Paul Outerbridge, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andy Warhol, Carleton E. Watkins
MoMA2000, ModernStarts

People: Composing with the Figure

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
7 Oct 1999 – 1 Feb 2000

with Robert Adamson, Eugene Atget, Constantin Brancusi, Julia Margaret Cameron, Georges Demeny, Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Wiliam England, Roger Fenton, Arnold Genthe, David Octavius Hill, Lewis Hine, Eadweard J. Muybridge …
Floods of Light: Flash Photography 1951-1981

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
10 Dec 1982 – 29 Jan 1983

with Grégoire Alexandre, Diane Arbus, David Bailey, Heiner Blum, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Gilles Caron, David Chadwick, J. Chillingsworth, John Coplans, Robert Doisneau …

Events

Photography

FEATURING DEPTH OF FIELD: THE ALAN AND DOROTHY PRESS COLLECTION

Christie's New York, New York (US)
20 Sep 2023 – 4 Oct 2023

with Robert Frank, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alfred Stieglitz
Art & Photographs

Juan Naranjo Galería, Barcelona (ES)
20 Jun 2022 – 21 Jun 2022

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Constantino Arias, Enrique Aznar, Alione Bâ, Carmen Calvo, Francesc Catala-Roca, Agusti Centelles, Martin Chambi, Hannah Collins, Gabriel Cuallado, Elliott Erwitt, Andreas Feininger …
18. WESTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION

OstLicht, Wien (AT)
12 Nov 2018 – 23 Nov 2018

with Berenice Abbott, Nobuyoshi Araki, Ruth Bernhard, Brassai, Annie Brigman, Rene Burri, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jewgeni Chaldej, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson …
Photographs

Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas (US)

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Lillian Bassman, Ruth Bernhard, Lucien Clergue, Henry Gilpin, Ernst Haas, Graciela Iturbide, Gustave Le Gray, Tina Modotti, Hiroshi Sugimoto