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Introduction
1	The sex industry
2	The sex industry - examples
3	Courtesans
Photographers
4	Eugène Atget: Brothels, prostitutes and nudes
5	Studio Biederer
6	E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits
7	Frank Horvat: Le Sphynx, rue Pigalle, Paris
8	Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road
9	Larry Sultan: The Valley

Sex Industry

Themes
Erotica and nudes
Sex Industry

Alternative names

The sex industry

A closer look

Domination
Fetish
Naturism
Prostitution

See also

Gender
Sexuality

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Equivalents, similes and visual metaphors
Erotica and staged photography
Fakes, forgeries, tricks and deceptions
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Photographers who died in action
Photography assimilated into popular culture
Physique photography studios
Prehistory of photography
Preservation of photographic archives
Propaganda
Sequences and series
Sex Industry
Social life of photographs
Social media
Staged photography
Subterranean photography
Surveillance
Text and calligraphy
The ubiquitous camera
Trends
Understanding photography
Women photographers

Eugène Atget (1857-1927), Jane Evelyn Atwood (1947-), Juliana Beasley, E.J. Bellocq (1873-1949), Brassaï (1899-1984), Albert Brichaut, Zana Briski, Fiona Clark (1954-), Joan Colom, Frank Horvat (1928-2020), Timothy Hursley, Mona Kuhn (1969-), Reagan Louie, Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), Susan Meiselas (1948-), Hans Neleman, Sylvia Plachy (1943-), Larry Sultan (1946-2009), Michael von Graffenried, Vicky Wetherill, Heinrich Zille (1858-1929)

Themes

Subscribers have access to the nine informative Fragments on this Theme, Online Exhibitions, Visual Indexes and References.

Introduction
1	The sex industry
2	The sex industry - examples
3	Courtesans
Photographers
4	Eugène Atget: Brothels, prostitutes and nudes
5	Studio Biederer
6	E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits
7	Frank Horvat: Le Sphynx, rue Pigalle, Paris
8	Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road
9	Larry Sultan: The Valley

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