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Check out excerpts from a private photo collection “Names and No-Names in Photo History”, guess the price for the work you like, send it to mail@omc-llc.com and find out the price at which your choice is offered. Click here to get access to the files. Photograph above “From Billboard Series, 1960’s” by Harold Chapman (UK, 1927 – 2022)

Birgit Huck

New Artist at The OMC Gallery: Birgit Huck, Germany

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

Title image: Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Jerry Lewis, actor, Paris, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Warsaw, Poland. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ¾ by 6 ⅛ on 9 ⅜ by 6 ½”, signed ,…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (23/24)

Title image: Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series Paris 1960 to 1970’s. Empty early morning café and a reminder to have Sauerkraut for lunch. Paris 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 84 Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanLeft Bank Paris, Couple with Chariot, 1960’s….

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (22/24)

Harold Chapman Earls Court, London 1962, Black Market, “Dope Dealer with Cigarettes and Cannabis in her basket”. (H.C) Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 36×49,5cm, signed, titled, dated Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanCaffeine Man on the Go. Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 5.5”, signed, stamped, titled Harold Chapman The English…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (21/24)

Harold ChapmanBlack and White, Paris, Billboard Series, 1960-1970’s. “Not much interest taken by anyone in this giant handsome hunk’s big bulge in his briefs…“(H.C) Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 5 ⅞” on 9 by 7”, signed Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold Chapman Paris 1963 – Montmartre. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 49.5 by 35cm, signed,…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (20/24)

Harold ChapmanIan McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter in Stockwell, London 1960’s. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), size 9 by 5 3/4″ on 9 3/8 by 7″, signed, titled and stamped. Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanLawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter, social…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (19/24)

Harold ChapmanFashion, Kings Road, London 1960’s, A Mr. Freedom Tie. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 5.5”, signed, stamped, labeled, titled, dated Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanFashion, Trompe-l’œil Dress, Mr. Freedom, Church Street, Kensington, London 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ¾ by 6 ¾”, signed, stamped, labeled, titled, dated Harold ChapmanFashion,…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (18/24)

Harold ChapmanBillboard Series 1960 to 1970’s – “The Land, That Time Forgot”, London 1974. Ladders to the Lost World. A titillating monster-and-mayhem movie. Giant publicity posters erected by workers. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 5 3/4 on 9 3/8 by 6 7/8″, signed. Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanBillboard Series 1960 to 1970’s – A…

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 Harold ChapmanThe 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…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (16/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Harold ChapmanThe Beat Hotel, Paris – Piero Heliczer, poet of the ‘Dead Language Press’, visiting the Hotel for a free haircut. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4×6″, signed. Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanThe Beat Hotel, Paris – Patrick Shelley, the English…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (15/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Harold ChapmanThe Beat Hotel, Paris – The stair well. Owing to the less stringent laws in force at the time, the smoking of hashish and marijuana was, among some of the residents, a social activity like any other. The distinctive smell would day or night, drift from the ill-fitting…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (14/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series 1960’s and 70’s. Gossiping housewives awaiting a train in the METRO GALLERY OF EVER CHANGING ART AND DESIGN: “PERFECT…WITH FRESH EGGS…” Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 5 ⅞ by 9” on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (13/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image:Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. London. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 by 9¼”, signed, labeled Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 5 ⅛”, signed, stamped, labeled Harold…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (12/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image:Harold ChapmanFrom Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ½ by 7”, signed The Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s predominately photographed in London and Paris, can be viewed as a stage element and backdrop with the ever changing protagonist seen and caught in the camera…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (11/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: Harold ChapmanDéfense d’Afficher, rue Gît-le-Coeur: “Posting forbidden” and chained to the railing, a wheel –all that remains of a dismembered bicycle.Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼” on 7 by 5”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 88…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (10/24) 

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: Harold Chapman Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg in Rue St-Andre-des-Arts, Paris, December 1956. At that time they were living in Room 24 of the ‘Beat Hotel’ Silver Gelatin Print, Size 5 3/4 by 8”, signed, titled, stamped Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part…

Corina Gertz – The Averted Portrait

‘Gertz’s Portrayals are anti-individualistic and deeply personal all at once’ (Clara Freestone) Enjoy, Rolf Goellnitz

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (09/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: Harold ChapmanGirl playing, Gorbals slums, Glasgow, Scotland, late 1960’s Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ¼ by 5 ⅝”, signed, stamped, titled Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01 Harold ChapmanBoy with Plastic Bag, Gorbals slums, Glasgow, Scotland, late 1960’s Silver Gelatin Print, Size…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (08/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: Harold ChapmanThe prophetic, wildly eccentric Sinclair Beiles was fiercely protected by Madame Rachou. With Brion Gysin, he helped William Burroughs to complete the manuscript of “Naked Lunch” for Maurice Girodias of The Olympia Press, for whom Beiles worked.One bitter winter, he was about to leave the hotel…

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….

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (06/24) 

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 ChapmanLegalize pot Rally, Hyde Park,…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (05/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: Harold ChapmanThe 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…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (04/24)

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, 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 ChapmanEarly morning rush hour. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard), Size 12 ½…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (03/24)

Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: Harold ChapmanFrom 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,…

Erwin Olaf 1959 – 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,…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (2/24)

(Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors Title image: 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…

Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts

Title image: Harold ChapmanThe 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…

Names and No-names in Photo History

Check out our little catalog with excerpts of a private photo collection, featuring famous and unknown images, of renown and lesser known photographers, which all tell a story and become available now for acquisition. Interested, just drop us a note by email (mail@omc-llc.com) or call or send a text message to +1 714 421 0476 Thank you! Rolf Goellnitz

Purvis Young – The Blue Truck – On Auction

Purvis Young (1943 – 2010) has been recognized as one of the masters of thisbroadly defined nonacademic genre of ‘outsider art’. His work possesses asingularly raw form of aesthetic power and through the decades he hasdeveloped an astounding  oeuvre, out of which we were able to acquire arange of true highlights, in early 1999, while we visited Miami. The above painting features one of…

PURVIS YOUNG_Artwork ON AUCTION

Purvis Young has been recognized as one of the masters of this broadly defined nonacademic genre of ‘outsider art’. His work possesses a singularly raw form of aesthetic power and through the decades he has developed an astounding  oeuvre, out of which we were able to acquire a range of true highlights, in the late 90-s, while we visited Miami. One of them is…

JEnny Holzer – From Survival Series

“Survival” Pencils, 1991 ( Art Multiple) 12 Pencils Issued in a titled cardboard box, which contains a pleated cardboard insert that holds two examples of each of six phrases from Holzer’s “Survival Series” – “What Urge Will Save Us Now That Sex Won’t?”, “You Are Trapped On The Earth So You Will Explode”, “Men Don’t Protect You Anymore”, “Protect Me From What I Want”,…

Pierre Soulages _ Lithography

Pierre Soulages (1919 – 2022) ‘Untitled‘ Original Lithography From XXe Siecle, Volume 34, 1970 Published by G. di San Lazzaro, Paris Printed by Mourlot, Paris Unsigned Edition of about 3000 (There is also a signed edition of 75) Size: 31 by 23,8cm ( 12 1/4 by 9 3/8″) Verso: Printed information about the work ( see image below) Condition: Good to Very Good (some…

Rene Magritte – Les Bijoux Indiscrets

Original lithograph in colors, 1963, with the title and signature in the stone. One of about 2000 prints (aside from the hand signed and numbered edition of 95 including proofs), printed by Mourlot, Paris and published by XXe Siecle, Paris. – 25th Year – Number 22 – Christmas 1963 (Under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro) Unframed. Size: Sheet: 12 3/8 by 9…

Obituary – Harold Chapman, Photographer

With sadness The OMC Gallery shares the news, that English photographer Harold Chapman has died on August 19, at the age of 95. Since 1999 we cooperated with Harold, became friends and presented his magnificent oeuvre at international art fairs and at our Gallery in Duesseldorf (Germany), later also in Huntington Beach, California and up to this day on our gallery website. Harold Chapman…

Wolfgang Herbold – Neue Arbeiten – New artwork

Check out examples of Wolfgang Herbold’s latest work series, presented in the “Kleine Galerie of BBK Aachen , Adalbertsteinweg 123 cd, 52070 AACHEN: The Knowledge Of The Object Is Infinite. Thank you for your interest! Rolf Goellnitz

Model with Tattoo 1920-s, yet Not a Man Ray

While recently an iconic Man Ray print ( Le Violon d’Ingres) sold for $12.4 million at Christie’s, nearly tripling the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, our vintage print from an anonymous photographer, produced for Underwood& Underwood in the same time period, is available at an easier affordable price. The tattoos on the back of the model showing a mouse,…

Pierre Alechinsky (*1927) – Anthropie (1994)

Beautiful etching by one of the grand seigneurs of the art world. The print is an artist proof (size~80x60cm), signed, numbered XXV/ XXV e.a, titled and dated in pencil by the artist. It was acquired on January 17, 1995 at Galerie Lelong in Paris, France and is in very good condition. SOLD Rolf Goellnitz

DISCOVER NOW – Hideki Iinuma, Edouard De’ Pazzi, Jolande de Bouvrie, Raoul Hausmann

Hideki Iinuma and a selection of photographs by Edouard de’Pazzi, Raoul Hausmann and Jolande De Bouvrie

Antoni Tapies _ Panier et Signes Noirs

Original Lithography 1980 , ED 63/75, size 66x81cm, Excellent Condition. Signed and numbered by the artist, published 1991 in Catalog by Edition Maeght, Paris ‘Tapies – Graphic Oeuvre’ , page 109. Price $4,100 (plus applicable taxes, shipping and insurance costs)

Wolfgang Herbold_again Untitled

Please check out the latest Ink Drawings on Paper by Wolfgang Herbold (Germany) Thank You for your interest. Rolf Goellnitz

The Blue Truck – Purvis Young

Purvis Young has been recognized as one of the masters of thisbroadly defined nonacademic genre of ‘outsider art’. His work possesses asingularly raw form of aesthetic power and through the decades he hasdeveloped an astounding  oeuvre, out of which the owner was able to acquire arange of true highlights, in early 1997, while he visited Miami. The above painting features one of Purvis Young’s…

PAVEL ODVODY – Photography

Mesmerized Movement: The Subtle Handling of Light in Pavel Odvody’s Work This recently published book documents the black and white photography by Pavel Odvody (*1953) which fuses sensibility, memory and fantasy in an original manner. His exploration of the psyche, beyond the body, is what gets under the observer’s skin. Moments of nakedness, staged in magical double exposures, wraithlike patterns or silhouettes of light,…

Onion by Josef Sudek

Artist Josef Sudek (1896 – 1976) Czech ‘Onion‘ Vintage Silver Gelatin Contact Print 1950-1954~4×5 in, on 6.6×8.8 inSigned Sudek in pencil in the marginAt lower rightThe verso inscribed with Angela VI with a pencil.Mounted in a mat.Some light oxidation along the edges outside the imageThe lower left marginal corner slightly bent, with a tiny fold inthe margin at upper right. Print is sold from…

Ella Fitzgerald by Herman Leonard

Herman Leonard: Ella Fitzgerald performing to an audience including,  Duke Ellington,  Benny Goodman,  Stan Hasselgard,  Jack Robbins, New York City 1949. This Silver Gelatin Print print (20×24″) on paper is signed, titled and numbered 15/50 byHerman Leonard himself in the white space beneath the image and has beenacquired by the current private owner in the mid 90-s. It’s an iconic moment in Jazz History and visualizes the star…

Pierre Alechinsky

Image shows: Résumé, a portfolio of 43 Lithographs in vibrant colors, plus Title sheet and Authenticity sheet, signed and numbered by Pierre Alechinsky. Sold recently to an Italian gallery. Rolf Goellnitz

Digital Art

“Everything is in a state of flux, caught in processes of metamorphosis. The malleability of the reality stored in the image is celebrated sensuously and the transformation of all visible phenomena is declared to be the sole constant.” Sabine Fabo_2001 Check out Wolfgang Herbold’s Digital Art at The OMC Gallery.

Black and White

Please check out our latest selection of photographs by Edouard de’ Pazzi (France), Raoul Hausmann ( Austria), Jolande des Bouvrie (Netherlands) Thank you for your interest!

Graciela Iturbide – Bateke

1996 Vintage Photographs by Graciela Iturbide (4 signed silver gelatin prints) Poems in French by Aimé Césaire and Alvaro Mutis, unpublished Spanish translation by Alvaro Mutis Graphic design by Andres Mengs Tray case made of natural linen 15 x 12 x 0.8 inches, An edition of 40 copies. This offer is Ed. # 24/40 It was the idea of the Colombian writer Alvaro Mutis…

CHI Kuo-Chang and Nick Dekker

Please check out our latest selection of photographs by Chi Kuo-Chang (Taiwan) and Nick Dekker (USA). If you’re interested in acquiring their work, please contact mail@omc-llc.com or call Rolf +1 (714) 421-0476 with your questions and requests. Thank You!