At the Williams Research Center in New Orleans you can look at the old Blue Books on microfiche tapes. Blue Books are like a type of menu for services rendered at bordellos in Storyville, New Orleans' historic red-light district. They are not a crass and crude written concession, but bit biographies advertising the allures of experts in the world's oldest profession.

After a lifetime of admiring females, musician, writer, and photographer Frank De Blase (now City Newspaper's music editor) began aiming his lens to pin-up beauties. Like the Blue Books, his photos capture the raw sex and sensuality without making the gals look cheap.

The George Eastman House presents De Blase with a photography lecture that offers up a voyeuristic view of T&A from his admiring perspective. (I don't have to explain T&A, do I?) The lecture takes place Thursday, July 31, at 6 p.m.; admission is free with museum admission ($5-$8). The Eastman House is located at 900 East Avenue; for more information visit eastmanhouse.org.