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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 (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 (18/24)
Posted on November 4, 2023
Harold Chapman
Billboard 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 Chapman
Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s – A distracting climb. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 5 3/4 on 9 3/8 by 6 7/8″, signed.
Harold Chapman
Billboard Series, 1960-1970’s – Elysee 68, Naked models, Sexy Girls, Transvestites… This lady seems to think, they stink… Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9 on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed
Harold Chapman Flea Market – The Painting, Paris 1962. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 34×49,5cm, signed, stamped, titled, dated
Harold Chapman Flea Market – Doll Truck, Paris 1960-s. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 33×49.5cm, signed, stamped
Harold Chapman Flea Market – The Wish, Porte de Montreuil, Paris 1963. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 37,5x49cm, signed, stamped, titled and 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 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 (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 (08/24)
Posted on October 4, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
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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
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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 (05/24)
Posted on September 26, 2023
Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera-Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
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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
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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
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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
Harold Chapman Online Retrospective of the Photographic Oeuvre in 24 Parts
Posted on September 20, 2023
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Harold Chapman
The 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 1998, Harold Chapman’s work appeared in the thirtieth-anniversary issue of Creative Camera, a leading British photographic magazine, to which he had contributed thirty years previously in the first issue. Interviewed in December 1968, Chapman had declared: “…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.”
Harold Chapman wanted to leave visual proof for subsequent generations, who without it could not imagine, what had come before.
“The photographs, regardless of Chapman’s goal to merely document, are astounding, both in subject matter and composition, with the imagery ranging from moody portraiture of the famous and their dingy, single-bed rooms to street scenes featuring disparate juxtapositions of people and background advertisements.”(OC Weekly 4/2012)
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.”
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
“Stolen kisses, rue de Buci, Paris, 1960’s. Standing outside a café, the boys dare each to steal a kiss from passing girls.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 6 by 9” on 6 ⅞ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 15
Harold Chapman
“1957, December Paris in the rain: Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg on a double-sided bench, Place Saint-German-des-Prés.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 13 ¾ by 19 ¾”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 36 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 15
Harold Chapman
“William Burroughs’ anonymous grey trilby. 1961.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼” on 5×7”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 48 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 124
Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series: “Love on the Left Bank, Giant posters were assembled in sections on wooden panels. Sections, which had no particular meaning, were frequently left standing in side streets for days. Paris 1960’s.“(HC)
Quadtone Inkjet Giclee Print on Archival Cotton Fiber Paper, Size 8 ½” by 11 ¾ on 11 ¾ by 16 ½”, Size ????”, signed on retro, numbered 4/12
Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 77
Harold Chapman
“An idle broom leans on peeling posters. Moshe Dayan, the eye patched smiling general who swept to victory in the sands of the ‘Six Day War’, shares a wall with pop-art idol Andy Warhol. Paris 1960’s.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6” on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed on verso.
Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 89
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