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Sanctuary

In 1973 I arrived in New Orleans from France and began my work as a street photographer in the French Quarter. I was amazed by the richness of the life in those streets.   It was in fact a sanctuary for all kinds of people and activities – musicians, fortune tellers, tap dancers, strippers, eccentrics of every stripe – people from different worlds gathered in one small neighborhood.

At the time, I was reading Baudelaire’s great Spleen de Paris about wandering the streets of Paris, and New Orleans seemed to me as much a city of symbols and correspondences as his Paris of the 19th century. SANCTUARY is what I saw as a ‘flâneur’ in the French Quarter from 1973 to 1987.

Jackson Square
The Ladies and the Military
Vieux Carré
Bourbon Street Mother
The Cockatoo
Bourbon Street Denizen
Bluesman
Daughters of Eve
Tap Dancers
Lucky Dog Man
Dixie
The Bandit
The Busboy
Gates of Paradise
Progeny
The Racoon
The Black Houdini
Birth and Death
Marilyn Monroe
Kool Man
Ruthie
Jesus People
The Sitter
Bourbon Street Beauty
Magician
Groomsmen 2
The Shadow
Death Waving
The Passenger
Desire
Two Directions
CBD Xmas
News Vendor
Accordian Man
Bishop Young
Gossip 2
Canal Street Shopper
The Gossip and the Blind Man
Hari Krishnas
Dreaming
Gone with the Wind
Lady on the Bus 2
Librairie
Holy Couple
Grandma
Flea Market Shopper
Macho Man
The Chihuahua and the Sun
Big Daddy
The Way of Zen
The Women’s Lounge
Inside the Women’s Lounge
Hugs
Sleeping Child
Summer Rain
The Dancers
The Foreigner
The Waiters
Three Friends
Two Step
The Painter

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