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Posted on June 11, 2024
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Photograph above “From Billboard Series, 1960’s” by Harold Chapman (UK, 1927 – 2022)
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (24/24)
Posted on December 3, 2023
Title image: Harold Chapman
From 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 Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Warsaw, Poland. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ¾ by 6 ⅛ on 9 ⅜ by 6 ½”, signed , stamped, titled
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ½ by 5 ⅞ on 9 ½ by 7, signed, labeled
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. “Dracula – massacre, mayhem, murder, rape and seduction… favorite themes of cheap cinemas, that dotted the Pigalle area of Paris, 1963.”(H.C) Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ½ by 7”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series,1960 to 1970’s, The Face, Paris. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅞ by 9 ⅞”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Boulevard St. Michel, Paris 1963 Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 ⅝ by 10 ¾”, signed, dated
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, ‘Day Dreaming’, Paris. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ⅝ by 6 ¼ on 12 by 9 ⅜”, signed
This was the last edition of our 24 chapter long online retrospective about the oeuvre of Harold Chapman. We hope you enjoyed our selection and appreciate your interest. Please contact us, if you have any questions, like to see more or want to acquire work of Harold Chapman.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera-Goellnitz
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (21/24)
Posted on November 25, 2023
Harold Chapman
Black 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, title, dated, stamped
Harold Chapman
Total Comfort – Warmed by the early morning winter sun, relaxed in his trailer, reading the morning paper and listening to the radio, this market dealer is not particularly interested in customers.(H.C) Paris 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6”, signed, titled
Harold Chapman
On Champs Elysées: No need to buy a daily paper, as all the pages were displayed behind glass outside of newspaper offices. Paris, 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 6 ⅝ by 10”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 87
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, France, Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ¼ by 4 0n 7 by 5”, signed , stamped, labeled
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Montpellier, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 10 by 7 1/2”, signed, stamped, titled
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera-Goellnitz
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (15/24)
Posted on October 26, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Harold Chapman
The 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 doors. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size15 ⅝ by 10 ⅝” on 16×12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 85 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 43
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Madame Rachou presides the bar: Robin Page (Canadian painter), Peter Bishop (English journalist), Larry Yampolsky (news-reel camera man), Madame Rachou, Thomas Neurath (Thames & Hudson), Peter Golding (London fashion designer), John Hammer in the Cafe. June 1960. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ⅜” on 12 by 16”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 74 (top) and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 40
Harold Chapman
Every Secret Service would have loved Madame Rachou’s sensitive “Light Control Panel”, which faced the cafe bar. Under each switch was an enamel plaque with the room number; above was a fuse in the form of a bulb, which became dimmer or brighter according to the electricity being used in the room, thus enabling Madame Rachou to spy, and keep a tight control of her hotel guests’ energy use. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 7 ⅜” by 11” on 8 by 11 ⅝””, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 78 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 42
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Room 29, Burroughs’ old room. When he left, Harold moved in. His work bench, a collage. His first poster picture: Petula Clarke’s face pasted on an open door. The lampshade, a salad basket scavenged from a dust bin. The folders on the table are the beginnings of his documentation of ‘les Halles’, Paris and ‘everyday life’ in France. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 7 ⅝ by 11 ¾” on 8 by 11 3/4”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 61 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 138
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Mural by ‘Goofey’ Godfrey. After the Beat Hotel had ended, dealers turned up to its new incarnation as the ‘Hotel Du Vieux Paris”, to buy the artwork on the walls. Unfortunately there was none: The walls had been scraped and re-plastered and covered with flowered wallpaper by Monsieur and Madame Laigle, the new owners. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼” on 7 by 5”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 115 (left) and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 64
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris. 9, Rue Gît-Le-Cœur in 1958 – the hotel with no name: “The Beat Hotel”, “Madame Rachou’s Maison de Fous”, The Flea Bag Shrine”… An unlike venue for the meeting of the soon-to-be-world-famous. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ⅜” on 12 by 16”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 38
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera-Goellnitz
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (14/24)
Posted on October 22, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Harold Chapman
From 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 81
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Saint-Yorre I adore you…Health, beauty and gaiety – not much of this as two nuns rummage through their shopping in a murky Metro station. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅛ by 9 ⅛ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ½ by 11”, signed, stamped
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, near ‘Les Halles’, Paris 1969, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9 on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅛ by 9 ⅛ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, ‘Bangkok Violence’,(Movie Poster advertises the action/spy movie ‘Shadow of Evil’), on Boulevard es Italiens, Paris 1964, Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅜ by 8 ⅝ on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed
Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. The lure of Paris”…and me”. Sailors on leave pass the parade of fashion posters. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 10 ½ by 15 ½”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 98
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera-Goellnitz
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (13/24)
Posted on October 19, 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. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 by 9¼”, signed, labeled
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 5 ⅛”, signed, stamped, labeled
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, 1968 – 1970. Nun passing a hosiery advertising on Blvd. Saint Germain, Paris 1968. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 10 ½ by 15 ½, signed, dated
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, 1965 – 1967. Drip Dry Hands, Paris 1963. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 by 10”, signed, dated
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris. At the launch of a new French brown bottled beer, Pelforth ’43’ giant bottles were installed as an advertising stunt in several metro stations in Paris. This zonked out lad finds the beer bottle makes a comfortable corner for an afternoon nap. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 by 10”, signed, dated.
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris 1965 – 67. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 12 ½ by 8 ¾ on 15 ¾ by 11 ½”, signed, dated
Harold Chapman From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, ‘Bread for the World‘ Campaign 1960-s. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 26,3x37cm, signed, stamped
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. The rue Mouffetard, one of Paris ‘ poorest streets. An old lady off to market in her carpet slippers shuffles past a keyhole revealing a girdled nymphet in high heels. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ⅞ by 5 ¾” on 93/8 by 6 ⅜”, signed
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera-Goellnitz
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (11/24)
Posted on October 12, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Title image:
Harold Chapman
Défense 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
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
A Lambretta parked by a paper beach scene, pasted on wooden walls screening the disorder
of a building site..
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6 ½” on 11 ⅛ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 19
Harold Chapman
May 1968 Paris Students, protest movement poster. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9by 5 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed, dated
Harold Chapman
Pigalle, a B-Movie paradise: cheap cinemas showing Egyptian mummies risen from the dead, ravished ladies, and every kind of titillating mayhem and horror. Paris 1960’s.
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 5 ⅞” on 9 ⅜ by 7by 9 ⅜”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 93
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. Mail bags laying around near post office on rue L’Eperon, Paris 1964 Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6 on 9 ½ by 7”, signed
Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series_1960 to 1970’s, Drowning in rubbish. Poster of Royal Automobile Club, England Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed
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 Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (10/24)
Posted on October 10, 2023
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 01
Harold Chapman Eunice Richards and Volkmar von Alten in the reading room of the “Mistral” bookstore, Paris, summer 1959.
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 1/2 by 10 3/4″ on 16 by 12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 46
Harold Chapman Verta Kali Smart from Philadelphia, and Bob Grosvenor in Room 9 of the Beat Hotel, Paris, January 1958. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ⅝ by by 6 ⅜” on 11 ⅞ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 96 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 54
Harold Chapman
Christmas Eve 1956: Jiving to “Maxim Saury and his New Orleans Sound” at the Caveau de La Huchette. Entrance to the tightly packed, smoky, sweaty cellar was a mer 600 old French Franc. (Equivalent to 6 New French Franc in 1960 or 1$)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 11 ¼” by 7 ⅝” on 11 ⅝ by 8”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 42 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 41
Harold Chapman
Scottish Folk singer Alex Campbell in the Monaco bar, Paris. Before the devaluation of the franc, the prices for the drinks were painted underneath saucers, and with each drink one ordered, another saucer was added to the pile. The hapless last survivor had to pay the bill.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ⅛ by 11 ¼”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 23 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 76
Harold Chapman
Young Couple, London, England 1960’s – Recruit about to return to his unit from leave and stay with his sweetheart.
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ¾ by 7 ¼”, signed, stamped, titled
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 Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (09/24)
Posted on October 8, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Title image:
Harold Chapman
Girl 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 Chapman
Boy with Plastic Bag, Gorbals slums, Glasgow, Scotland, late 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅝ by 6 ⅜”, signed, stamped, titled, labeled
Harold Chapman
Tease, Exeter, UK 1964
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 38x46cm, signed, stamped, titled, dated
Harold Chapman
Boy and Girl, 1960-s
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 32,5×49,5cm, signed, stamped
Harold Chapman
Pont des Arts. In the bitter cold and mist, the hurdy-gurdy man grinds out a tune with his gloved hands. He was there when I first visited Paris, and for many years I came across him in back streets in different parts of Paris.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ½ by 8 ¼” on 9 ⅜ by 11 ⅞”, signed and stamped on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 12
Harold Chapman
Bread for breakfast: brother and sister on their way home from the boulangerie with a crusty loaf, fresh from the oven.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 9 by 6 ½” on 11 ⅛ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 13
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (08/24)
Posted on October 4, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Title image:
Harold Chapman
The 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 naked, carrying a mattress on his back to give it to Clochards, to sleep on in Notre-Dame. Some years later in an Arctic like winter the army provided beds for the tramps in the Cathedral. 1960.
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 15 ½ by 10 ½ on 16 by 12”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 58
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01
Harold Chapman
Gregory Corso in “Le Mistral”, where seminars and poetry readings were held. Spring 1957.
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6 ½” on 11 ⅛ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 58
Harold Chapman
1963, Harold Norse claimed to be prophetic; he was. “This flea-bag shrine will be documented by art historians and make it into history”, he said. It is indeed.
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ½ on 12 by 16”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 67
Harold Chapman
Room 32: Self-portrait. Improvising a ‘darkroom’ by covering the bed with coats, and with lights off and curtains closed, I would dive under the bedding to load the tank with film. Developed in the sink and dried in a corner, the films were often damaged.
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 19 ¾ by 13 ¾”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 60 and in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 144
Harold Chapman
Poet Allen Ginsberg in his room at the Beat Hotel, 9 Rue Gît-Le-Cœur, Paris, Christmas 1956
Quadtone Black Inkjet, Giclée Print on Archival Cotton Fiber Paper, 310g, size 12 by 8″, signed. Part of “The Beat Hotel” Portfolio, a selection of 20 photographs by Harold Chapman. Published in a limited edition in 2000.
Harold Chapman
William Seward Burroughs in the café of the Beat Hotel, 9 Rue Gît-Le-Cœur, Paris
Quadtone Black Inkjet, Giclée Print on Archival Cotton Fiber Paper, 310g, size 12 by 8″, signed. Part of “The Beat Hotel” Portfolio, a selection of 20 photographs by Harold Chapman. Published in a limited edition in 2000. Also published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 72
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 Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (07/24)
Posted on October 2, 2023
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
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 Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (06/24)
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
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (05/24)
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
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (04/24)
Posted on September 23, 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, 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
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (03/24)
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
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts (2/24)
Posted on September 21, 2023
(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 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
Obituary – Harold Chapman, Photographer
Posted on August 28, 2022
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 has been a remarkable photographer, whose oeuvre documents many facets of people’s life, especially in Great Britain and France from the late 1940-s until today. He provided an endless stream of images, with one purpose described by him in an interview in December 1968: “…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.”
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.”
Rest in Peace, Harold.
Rolf Goellnitz and RoxAnn Madera
Find here more about Harold Chapman.
Good-bye United Kingdom
Posted on January 30, 2020
In the late 1950s the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan dramatically changed its attitude and appointed Edward Heath to submit an application and lead negotiations for Britain to enter the Common Market.
Britain joined the Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in 1961 and worked towards the reduction of trade restrictions between members. Britain was suspicious of the French Schumann plan to establish a supranational body regulating the production and sale of coal and steel.
The United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum was a public vote that took place on 5 June 1975, on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Communities which was principally the European Economic Community (the Common Market) as it was known at the time.
The electorate expressed significant support for EC membership, with 67% in favor on a national turnout of 64%.
45 years later the UK is leaving the EU – for better or worse – time will tell.
The photograph above was taken by Harold Chapman, (*1927), a renown English photographer, whose work is reflecting life in the UK and France from the early 1950-s until today.
The woman looking outside the window, has obviously an opinion, firm enough to state it also publicly. While her wish came not true at the time(1975), it does now 45 years later, as the UK leaves the EU on January 31, 2020.
The Beat Generation is moving to the ZKM
Posted on November 14, 2016
” The ZKM | Karlsruhe will be the second stage of the Beat Generation exhibition (Nov 26 – Apr 30, 2017) after the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the last few years, the ZKM has dedicated a number of major exhibitions to the leading figures of the Beat Generation, such as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg (above right with Peter Orlovsky, Paris, Saint Germain, 1956 – Photo by Harold Chapman). In this new exhibition, an overview of the literary and artistic movement, which was created at the end of the 1940s, will now be provided for the first time. If “beatniks” were viewed back then as subversive rebels, they are now perceived as actors in one of the most important cultural directions of the 20th century.”
©Harold Chapman, William S. Burroughs in his room at the Beat Hotel, Paris ~1960
Credits
- Peter Weibel (Curator)
- Jean-Jacques Lebel (Curator)
- Philippe-Alain Michaud (Curator)
- Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás (Project management)
Partners
This exhibition is organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in collaboration with ZKM | Center for Art and Media.
The OMC Gallery is proud to offer a very large selection of photographs (period and modern prints) by Harold Chapman (signed). If you’re interested in buying, contact us at mail@omc-llc.com
Interested in books about Harold Chapman’s “Beat Generation” oeuvre? Find here:
OUT OF PRINT – BEATS A PARIS, 132 pp.; HB black.w/blue; NEW! fine condition w/clean, tight pages. with Dust Cover NEW! fine condition. Title trans: “Beats in Paris: Paris and the Poets of the Beat Generation 1957-1963” Harold Chapman’s capture of Paris in the 50s/60s, including the ‘Beat Hotel’, in which icons of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg & William Burroughs got together. In German. B/W photos throughout. Comes with English translation as separate insert. Price $49 + shipping
Harold Chapman – Paris and the Poets of the Beat Generation 1957 – 1963
Centre Pompidou – Celebrating the Beats
Posted on August 17, 2016
Harold Chapman, Self-Portrait in room of the Beat Hotel, Paris, late 1950s (courtesy of The OMC Gallery)
Check out what James Campbell has to say in The Guardian, about a new exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and a pivotal moment in cultural history: The time when in the late 50s the Beat movement reached its high point, with Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs, Corso and Gysin sharing rooms in a rundown hotel near the Seine.
“It was at the Beat Hotel in 1959 that the dishevelled “routines” of William S Burroughs were shuffled into some kind of shape by Ginsberg, Sinclair Beiles and others – a random shape, according to Burroughs himself – before being brought to the proprietor of Olympia, Maurice Girodias. Four or five weeks later, Naked Lunch, with a now rare dust jacket designed by the author and many misprints committed by non-English-reading compositors (fortunately, given the content), was in the few shops willing to stock it. The cut-up technique, which Burroughs used to produce his next two novels, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded – also published by Olympia – was accidentally revealed to his regular collaborator Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel. Gysin’s original cut-up weapon, a Stanley knife, is on display, as is Burroughs’s vintage Underwood typewriter and an adding machine of the kind refined by his grandfather, also William S Burroughs, which brought the family status and wealth at the end of the 19th century. It was in Paris that Ginsberg began writing “Kaddish”, his greatest poem, and it was from here that Gregory Corso sent the poems for his collection Gasoline to City Lights Books in San Francisco. “He’s probably the greatest poet in America”, Ginsberg wrote in a preface, “and he’s starving in Europe.” Starving at the Beat Hotel, to be precise, where Corso lived in a room almost too small to stand up in, as we see from one of the many photographs by the English photographer Harold Chapman.“
Out of print item – Photo Documentary Book about the Beat Hotel by Harold Chapman
Still available in German with an English text inlay: Harold Chapman – The Beats A Paris – Paris and the Poets of the Beat generation 1957 – 1963
Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg ( Title Page from Paris and the Poets of the Beat Generation 1957 – 1963 )
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