Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (17/24)

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

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The Beat Hotel, Paris – Brion Gysin, American poet, writer and painter (here laying beside his ‘Dream Machine’). He met William Burroughs in Tangier, and through him, Ian Summerville. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4×6″, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 129 (bottom)

Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

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The Beat Hotel, Paris –Ian Summerville, systems advisor to William Burroughs, in Montparnasse. Paris 1960. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 10 ⅜ by 15 ½” on 12×16”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 28 (top) and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 59

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The Beat Hotel, Paris – La Patronne Mme Rachou, Paris 1960. More effective than the Stasi, Madame Rachou controlled her hotel with tenacity and cunning. Described by William Burroughs as the ‘perfect landlady’ with ‘inflexible authority’. Not interested in the slightest in any of the arts, she was passionately interested in outsiders, eccentrics and deviants, with an amazing understanding and tolerance of their needs. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 15 ⅜ by 10 ⅝” on 16×12”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 63 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 39

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The Beat Hotel, Paris –Kay Johnson (Kaja”) worked on poetry and painting in her attic room, #41. One night , she banged on Harold’s door and said: Do you want to photograph the face of suffering? Paris 1961. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ½” 12 x16”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 169 (top) and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 56

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The Beat Hotel, Paris –Diane Baker in her room. “When she drove off one morning for Italy, I waved good-bye. But before I had gone back in the hotel, she returned, and leaning out of the car window, handed me a new pair of trousers: ‘I thought you needed these,” she said; which I did.” (HC) Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 11 by 7 ½” on 11 ½ by 8”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 103 (top) and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 66

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The Beat Hotel, Paris –Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg, American poet, who is sitting in front of a
portrait of Arthur Rimbaud, room 25 of the Beat Hotel, December 1956. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 5 7/8 by 8 6/8 on 7 by 9 3/8″, signed.

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The Beat Hotel, Paris -Gregory Corso, Beat poet. Spring 1957. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 8 6/8 by 5 7/8 on 9 3/8 by 7″, signed.

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Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera-Goellnitz