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Inside: The Chelsea Hotel

Door Julia Calfee

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#332091-AE5
Titel	Inside: The Chelsea Hotel
Auteur	Calfee, Julia
Boektype	Gebonden
Uitgeverij	Brooklyn, NY : PowerHouse Books
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	1576874060
ISBN13	9781576874066
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, dust jacket, unpaged, illustrated with numerous (full page) b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	In an intimate style, Inside: The Chelsea Hotel documents not only the archetypes and atmosphere in, but also echoes from the spirits and ghosts of, the inimitable Chelsea Hotel. The Chelsea Hotel is a place where excess is welcome, where the psyche can be annihilated or resurrected. It has a magical potential for transformation, whether through rebirth or destruction. Artists such as Mark Twain, Edith Piaf, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jasper Johns, Jack Kerouac, Wilhelm de Kooning, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Ethan Hawke have been drawn inside by a seemingly irresistible magnetic force. Julia Calfee has lived and photographed in the Chelsea Hotel for four years. “When I photographed at the Chelsea Hotel, I would stay in a space or s... (Lees verder)ituation for hours. Time would pass and my presence would become less and less visible. Sometimes I would even disappear." “People are always asking me what it's like to live in the Chelsea Hotel. Not always easy. There are times I felt like a fly caught in a spider's web, at risk of being eaten alive if I made the wrong move. This goes with living and working in the same place with a large extended, temperamental family full of artistic sensitivities and colossal egos, with long, exposed nerve ends—but there were also many moments of friendship, generosity, and complicity.”
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