Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (07/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors

Title image:

Harold Chapman

Drip-Dry hands: A priest stands unknowingly in front of a movie poster. Pontius Pilate washes his hands of responsibility behind the priest’s back. From Billboard series 1960″s to 1970″s, Paris.

Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard), Size 9 ¼ by 14”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 92

Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

Harold Chapman

Les Halles Market had its own police, who were responsible for law and order in the market. They had their own cap badge with “H.C.” on it, for ‘Halles Centrales’. Numerous orders of nuns in their distinctive habits shaped for their convents every night. Paris 1960’s.

Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 8 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 14

Harold Chapman
A nun and two priests meditating in the Montparnasse Métro station.

Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 by 8” on 9 ⅜ by 11 ½, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 14

Harold Chapman

Confession: A nun hurrying to confess unmentionable sins at early morning mass in Notre-Dame. The rising sun casts long shadows like accusing fingers across the pavement.

Modern Giclee, Quad-tone Inkjet Print on Archival cotton rag paper, ED #3/12, 11 ¾ by 7 ⅝”
on ~ 16 ½ by 10 ¼, signed in pencil on retro. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 16

Harold Chapman

Paris, Sacre Cœur, 1962 – Priests descending after morning mass.

Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 20 by 12″, signed, stamped, titled, dated
(additional hand written Text by Claire Parry: Les petits cures, qui portent du bureau)

Harold Chapman

Versailles, France – Nuns take a Sunday walk in the park. Winter 1964.

Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 12 1/2 by 19 1/2″, signed, dated, titled, stamped

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Cordially,

Rolf Goellnitz