From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 03/02/03-02:40:02 PM Z
Arthur,
THANKS!
This is my first real hit on a historical incident. I've seen some early
erotica in publications but was not aware of any specific historical
incidents of suppression. Much of the surviving early print
erotica-pornography is of the high priced gold stamped leather bound
"gentlemen's" edition. Thus essentially protected since it was out of reach
of the common folk. I don't know how this might relate to photography since
it was pretty much a common art form though perhaps Daguerreotypes were
exempt and albumins were the target??
--Dick Sullivan
At 02:17 PM 3/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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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