Posted on September 28, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Title image:
Harold Chapman
‘Legalize Pot Rally”, London Hyde Park, 1968 Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), size 4 ⅞ by 7 ½ ” on 7 by 9 ½”
Signed, titled, dated, stamped and labeled
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
Legalize pot Rally, Hyde Park, London, 1968
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ¼ by 10 on 8 ½ by 10 ½”, signed, titled, dated, stamped, labeled
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, England
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 ½”, signed , stamped, titled
Harold Chapman
Alf Garnett Billboard 1973, From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, England
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 6 ¼”, signed, stamped, dated
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, England
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9”, signed, stamped, titled
Harold Chapman
Fashion, Carnaby St, Two Tone Trousers, London 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ¾ by 6”, signed, stamped, labeled, titled, dated
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.Cordially,Rolf Goellnitz
Posted on September 26, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Title image:
Harold Chapman
The night over and in a cold brightening sky, a worker plods across the shiny washed square on his way home for his day’s sleep, a sack of food slung over his shoulder.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard), Size 16 by 11.5”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 117
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
Les forts: the elite strong men of the market hauling heavy hunks of meat from the meat hall to the lorries.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ½ by 8 ⅝” on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 110
Harold Chapman
Market traders gather at the baron Au Pied du Cochon for a quick warming shot of Calvados and coffee.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4 by 6” on 5×7”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 20
Harold Chapman
A trilby headed porter, resting on his loaded barrow. Paris, 1960’s.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber) Size 6 1/8 by 4 1/8″ on 7 by 5″, signed on retro. Part of the Portfolio, by Harold Chapman – Paris, Les Halles) Published in Harold Chapman – Beats a Paris, page 114
Harold Chapman
A brush for everything: an itinerant brush and blanket seller wandered ‘Les Halles’, doing a brisk trade in brushes. He disposed of blankets quickly on cold days when workers draped them over their shoulders to stop themselves from freezing. Paris 1960’s.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 15 by 10 ⅛”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats a Paris, page 115 and in John L. Hess – Vanishing France, page 18 (top)
Harold Chapman
Ask for our sandwich…a royal treat… Paris 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ⅜ by by 6 ⅜” on 11 ⅞ by 9 ⅜”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats a Paris, page 95
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz
Posted on September 23, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
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Harold Chapman From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Oxford Street, London Silver Gelatin Print, Size 19 by 14 ½”, signed, titled
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
Early morning rush hour.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard), Size 12 ½ by 10 ⅜”, signed on verso Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 78
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, Kings Road, Boutique: “Granny takes a Trip” 1960’s Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ½ by 6 ½ on 9 ½ by 7”, signed, titled, labeled, dated
Harold Chapman
The Secret Agent: who was the sinister character in a trilby hat and a long trench coat with his hand in his pocket, standing anxiously for hours, frequently looking at his watch in front of a pair of gigantic breasts encased in the latest example of Triumph’s uplift engineering … (HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ¼ by 8 ½” on 9 ⅜ by 11 3/4”, signed Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 79
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London. “A railway porter passes a theater poster advertising a play: No Sex, please, we’re British.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed
Harold Chapman
“Revolutions: A petrol powered bicycle, the Solex, immobile, beneath a destroyed Che Guevara.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print Resin, Size 8 ⅞ by 5 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 91
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Posted on September 22, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Title image:
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, England: Sinners Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ⅛ by 9 ⅜, signed, stamped, titled
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
“Teenager Derrie Thomas on bed with her Beatles Poster”, London, November 22, 1963, United Kingdom
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 10 by 7 ¾”, signed, stamped, labeled, titled
Harold Chapman
‘Brings Out the Best…From Billboard Series England, 1960 to 1970’s
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9 on 7 by 10”, signed
Harold Chapman
“Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg in Lee Forest’s room at the Hôtel de Londres, shortly before Orlovsky left Paris in January 1957 for the USA.” Paris, December 1956.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4 ¼ by 6” on 5 by 7”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 53 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 16 (top)
Harold Chapman
“William Burroughs and his shuffler baskets, which he used to create instant cut-ups from randomly placed manuscripts. Whilst in the Hotel, Burroughs worked on several novels, including ‘Naked Lunch’, in room 15 and ‘Soft Machine’. (HC) , Paris, Beat Hotel, 1961
Silver Gelatin Print (resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ½” on 12 by 16”, signed on verso
Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, Title image and page 122/123 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris – 1957 to 1963, page 49
Harold Chapman
“Mugshot. A couple of future candidates for a cancer clinic: Adoring kids, fascinated by this surely tough guy gangster movie poster.” (HC) From Billboard Series , 1960 to 1970’s, France
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), size 9 by 6 ” on 9 3/8 by 7″, signed, labeled
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz
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Posted on September 21, 2023
With great sadness we share the news of the untimely passing of a great Photographer and Creative, Erwin Olaf. He was known and recognized for his unique style, which enriched both, the commercial and fine art world, with perfectly executed results. His sometimes provocative and daring images, are as much reflections of the broad spectrum, the human mind offers to be explored, as those, which talk about grief and loss, or those, which sell a known product with an innovative visual appeal. Erwin Olaf was always courageous enough, to risk it.
Collecting his work, we had the pleasure to meet him once briefly at the Art Fair in Brussels, Belgium, in 2001.
We offer our heart felt condolences to his family and friends.
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera Goellnitz
Posted on September 21, 2023
(Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
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Harold Chapman
“Take away chicken from Les Halles. The image was published as Christmas card with the enigmatic words: My father used to be a pirate.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ¾ by 12 ¾ on 12 by 16”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 – 1963, page 113
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at Part 01
Harold Chapman
Les Halles Series “Meat express: finishing the night’s work, a butcher makes a frantic dash with a blood stained wagon to catch the last lorry.“(HC) Paris, Les Halles, 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 10 ⅞ by 14 ¾”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 – 1963, page 111
Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series: “A cheap ticket for the Métro: a little-used line provided peace and calm for housewives to meet up for a quiet gossip, do some knitting, and escape from the drudgery of housework.”(HC) Paris, 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print (resin), Size 6 by 9” on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 – 1963, page 99
Harold Chapman “Teddy Boys – Three Lads, York”, (HC) UK, 1958
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard) 19 1/2 x 17″, signed, titled, dated, stamped
Harold Chapman
“Apple Apples, Beatlemania”, (HC) London, England 1967
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 4 ⅞ by 7 ¼ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed, stamped, titled, labeled
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, England
“The traditional way of eating Britains national dish is out of newspaper while lounging on street corner” (HC) here in Thorpe Willoughby, Yorkshire, UK
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅝ by 8 ¼”, signed, stamped plus text
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz
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Posted on September 20, 2023
Title image:
Harold Chapman
The hand on the door: Evil spirits do not enter! (HC) Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 9 by 6 ½” on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, 1957 – 1963, page 123
Part 01 (Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
25 Years ago, in 1998, Harold Chapman’s work appeared in the thirtieth-anniversary issue of Creative Camera, a leading British photographic magazine, to which he had contributed thirty years previously in the first issue. Interviewed in December 1968, Chapman had declared: “…there is no need for the contrived shot. Pictures are everywhere. So why set up a photograph when the natural one is infinitely better?” He added: “I am photographing for the future, not for the present… All I aim for is to record the trivial things that ordinary people use and consider unimportant.”
Harold Chapman wanted to leave visual proof for subsequent generations, who without it could not imagine, what had come before.
“The photographs, regardless of Chapman’s goal to merely document, are astounding, both in subject matter and composition, with the imagery ranging from moody portraiture of the famous and their dingy, single-bed rooms to street scenes featuring disparate juxtapositions of people and background advertisements.”(OC Weekly 4/2012)
In April 2000, Booker Prize-winning British novelist, Ian McEwan, who had met Harold Chapman in 1974, wrote an article about the photographer entitled ‘A Spy in the Name of Art’, which was published in the Saturday Review of the Guardian. Summing up Harold Chapman’s work, he concluded: “If Chapman were merely a chronicler in a great documentary tradition, his achievement would be impressive enough. His lustrous landscapes of the Herault valley in the Languedoc, his priceless record of the Beat Hotel, his omnivorous, year-on-year transcription of daily life and its little undercurrents, would ensure his reputation as a photographer of the first rank. But it was constructive paranoia that made him an artist.”
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz
Harold Chapman
“Stolen kisses, rue de Buci, Paris, 1960’s. Standing outside a café, the boys dare each to steal a kiss from passing girls.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 6 by 9” on 6 ⅞ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 15
Harold Chapman
“1957, December Paris in the rain: Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg on a double-sided bench, Place Saint-German-des-Prés.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 13 ¾ by 19 ¾”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 36 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 15
Harold Chapman
“William Burroughs’ anonymous grey trilby. 1961.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼” on 5×7”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 48 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 124
Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series: “Love on the Left Bank, Giant posters were assembled in sections on wooden panels. Sections, which had no particular meaning, were frequently left standing in side streets for days. Paris 1960’s.“(HC)
Quadtone Inkjet Giclee Print on Archival Cotton Fiber Paper, Size 8 ½” by 11 ¾ on 11 ¾ by 16 ½”, Size ????”, signed on retro, numbered 4/12
Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 77
Harold Chapman
“An idle broom leans on peeling posters. Moshe Dayan, the eye patched smiling general who swept to victory in the sands of the ‘Six Day War’, shares a wall with pop-art idol Andy Warhol. Paris 1960’s.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6” on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed on verso.
Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 89
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Posted on September 19, 2023
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