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Remembering photographer Harold Chapman who passed away earlier this month at his home in Kent, UK at the age of 95. Best known for his iconic photos of the 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur, later known as the Beat Hotel, where he lived for 5 years photographing its inhabitants who included William S Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Ian Sommerville, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse, Peter Orlovsky and of course Allen. He was in fact the last resident to vacate in 1963 when it changed owners (it’s now 4.5 star hotel ‘Relais Hôtel du Vieux Paris’)   In those days it was 1 pound sterling a day..and filled with penniless students.    Photo: Peter Orlovsky & Allen Ginsberg, Pl. Saint-Germain des Prés, Paris, December 1957, by Harold Chapman  (theomcgallery.com)  #haroldchapman #beathotel #paris #beatgeneration #allenginsberg #peterorlovsky #williamsburroughs #gregorycorso (at Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7_AfSP1LI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

William S Burroughs and Harold Norse, Varsity Townhouses, Boulder Colorado, Summer 1980. Photo: Rochelle Kraut #williamsburroughs #haroldnorse #beathotel #beatgeneration #poetrycommunity (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUWUGzQLNHT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Gregory Corso smiling magician word mixer in his velvet poets attic, 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur,  Paris, 1957,  half block from the Seine, I lived downstairs, Burroughs on floor below. Gregory was writing his poems Bomb, Army, Hair & Death (See Happy Birthday of Death book). That's a little plaster angel hanging on the wall, right, French art postcards tacked up near the gabled window.  (photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #gregorycorso #beatgeneration #beathotel #paris #france #poetry #poetrycommunity #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLXjrZNhAkt/?igshid=1o7323iwkini6

It was though Jane Bowles that Brion was introduced to Morocco & eventually Burroughs, Corso and the beat writers  whose lives he would completely change.   Jane met him in Paris in 1938 soon introducing him to Paul. A decade later they invited him to stay with them in Tangier,  and by December 1954 Brion had opened up his restaurant, 1001 Nights,  in the Marshan quarter. Tho he and Burroughs had met several times there, they never quite connected till they ran into each other in Paris in 1958, when soon after Burroughs suggested he take a room at what would become the Beat Hotel.

Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg, photobooth, Pl Saint Michel, shortly after they arrived in Paris Fall 1957, and Gregory had discovered the cheap flat on 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur, later known as the Beat Hotel. Allen would have just received the news that Howl had prevailed in obscenity trial in San Francisco. (courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate)  #gregorycorso #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #happybirthdayofdeath #poetry #beatpoetry #poetrycommunity #beathotel #howl #ferlinghetti #citylightsbookstore #lawrenceferlinghetti (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Z7p-xhacu/?igshid=2ykjmfhqumiy

Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg, photobooth, shortly after they arrived in Paris Fall 1957, and Gregory had discovered the cheap flat on 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur, later known as the Beat Hotel.  (courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate)  #gregorycorso #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #happybirthdayofdeath #poetry #beatpoetry #poetrycommunity #beathotel (at Boulevard Saint-Michel)

Hurra, wir leben noch!Am Samstag, den 28.05.2022 lassen wir alle Krisen und Pandemien dieser Welt hinter uns und starten die Live Saison 2022 mit einem Auftritt auf dem Tollhub Festival bei Penzberg!Los geht’s um 18:00 Uhr. Adresse: Gut Hub, Vordermair 1, 82377 PenzbergEintritt ist frei. Um Spenden wird gebeten. https://kleinkunst-penzberg.de/programm Auf Euer zahlreiches Kommen freuen sich die Beathoteliers Fredrik, Anselm, Stefan und Norbert PS: Wir spielen sowohl Songs vom neuen Album "Golden Queen" als auch zahlreiche Beatles-Cover vom ebenfalls in 2021 erschienenen Album „Who is Eleanor Rigby“. Und auch die Sitar wird im Gepäck sein und Euch in orientalische Gefilde entführen…