ARTHURWG@aol.com
Date: 03/02/03-01:17:15 PM Z
Dick, I suggest you go back to the first era of the erotic French
Daguerreotype and subsequent photographic prints. There's quite a lot of
info available on the subject but you have to have access to a good library.
For example, there's the work of Auguste Belloc (1800-1867), a
photographer who was accused in 1856 of "engaginging in the business of
obscenities." In 1860, the government seized 5,000 of his salt and albumin
prints and he was sent to prison. When the pictures were eventually deposited
at the imperial library in 1866, however, only 195 remained, suggesting
strong demand for those subjects!
Arthur
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