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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 (23/24)
Posted on November 29, 2023
Title image: Harold Chapman
From 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 Chapman
Left Bank Paris, Couple with Chariot, 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 8 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 12”,
signed. titled, stamped
Harold Chapman
Early Morning in Uzes, France 1970’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ½ by 6 ¼”,
signed, stamped, titled
Harold Chapman
Editions Lyna Paris, ‘Nus Artistiques’, Store Window, Paris, 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 8 ⅞ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed
Harold Chapman
From ‘Beat Hotel’ series: Painter William Guthrie staggers along Rue Gît-Le-Cœur, Paris , Winter 1956, with one of his heavy canvases. Silver Gelatin Print (resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ½” on 12 by 16”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 37 and Harold Chapman – Beat Hotel, page 52 (bottom)
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 (17/24)
Posted on November 1, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Harold Chapman
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
Harold Chapman
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
Harold Chapman
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
Harold Chapman
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
Harold Chapman
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
Harold Chapman
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.
Harold Chapman
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.
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 (16/24)
Posted on October 28, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
Harold Chapman
The 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 Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Patrick Shelley, the English sensualist painter, and Allen Ginsberg, Room 25. Christmas 1956. Shelley introduced Harold Chapman to the Beat Hotel in the winter of that year. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4×6″, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 134.
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – “Cyclops”, Lester with Bob Grosnevor’s easel and paintings behind him, and Herb Kohl at the “Fête de Rois, January 1958. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4×6”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 95 (bottom)
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Room 41. Thelma Shumsky and her Swedish friend Gun, who both helped to sell Chapman’s Polaroid pictures in the cafés. The bed served as a sofa during the day. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4×6″, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 170 (top)
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Room 38. Dixie Nimmo, West Indien poet and novelist. On the walls is part of his large Art collection. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4×6″, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 154 (top)
Harold Chapman
The Beat Hotel, Paris – Eyla, a pin-up model for the French photographer Serge Jacques, poses for Harold at the top of the stairs, which was a favorite spot with photographers for dramatic posed pictures. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 15 ½ by 10 ⅝” on 16 by 12, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 159 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 47
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 (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
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