The Storyville Portraits are photographs of the sex workers of Storyville, New Orlean’s red-light district.  The pictures were taken by E.J. Bellocq in the 1910’s.  The 89 photographs depict women, some nude, some dressed, some masked.  The women are shown…

Olympia (1865) is an oil painting by Édouard Manet.  It depicts a courtesan, with her servant and cat, as she waits for a client.  After he was challenged to display a nude painting at the Annual Salon, Manet created Olympia. …