Celebrating & remembering Carolyn Cassady who was born this day in Lansing MI, 1923. In a roundabout way, Carolyn was the reason Allen moved west to San Francisco, since she brought Neal with her, settling in Los Gatos, inducing Allen to follow. And within a few short years in the Bay Area, Allen wrote Howl, America, Sun Flower Sutra, & read with the Six Gallery poets and published his first collection of poetry. Carolyn was never terribly fond of Allen, took no pleasure in his affairs with Neal, but they remained life long friends.Ā Ā Here pictured atĀ Allenās kitchen, table,Ā Ā East 12th Street, NYC June 1993 (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate)Ā Ā #beatgenerationĀ #carolyncassadyĀ #allenginsbergĀ #nealcassadyĀ #beatgenerationĀ #carolyncassadyĀ #allenginsbergĀ #nealcassadyĀ #offtheroadĀ #thegirlsbehindthescenesĀ #beatniksĀ #beatpoetsĀ #poetryĀ #thefirstthirdĀ #jackkerouacĀ #girlpowerĀ #womenofthebeatgeneration (at East Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/COOVMYSBMlI/?igshid=wqerjasi42nq
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in loving memory of my copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac which has been with a friend for about a year now, and i really wish i had it, it is so precious. i wish to have it soon ):
āBegan writing to (I suppose) satisfy my egotism. My writing has improved (slightly). A lot happened since I first entered notes in [this] book and stopped. [ā¦] Donāt mind my succession of different thoughts. I have a lot to say. As I said, I am writing to satisfy my egotism. If some future historian or biographer wants to know what the genius thought and did in his tender years, here it is. Iāll be a genius of some kind or other, probably in literature. I really believe it. (Not naively, as whoever reads this is thinking). I have a fair degree of confidence in myself. Either Iām a genius, Iām egocentric, or Iām slightly schizophrenic. Probably the first two.ā
- Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice
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Harold Chapman At 90 āNot Only the Beat Hotelā
Harold Chapman was born in Deal in 1927. Ā As a child, his father introduced him to the magic of photography. Ā Harold was self-taught. Ā He started his career as a jazz photographer in Soho. Ā Meeting Vogue photographer, John Deakin, changed his life. Ā He went to Paris and became a street photographer and was soon working for The New York Times. Ā In 1957 he moved into the Beat Hotel ā then a hotel with no name ā on the Left Bank and lived there untill it closed in 1964. By chance in the flea market in Montpellier, he met a publisher, Francois Lagarde, who went on to publish The Beat Hotel in 1984.Ā
How would you describe your photography practice?
I am a street photographer which gives me a chance to avoid getting into crowds which I do not like particularly like, but like to be working alone.Ā The pictures that I take are the messages that I see visually in the world today and I take them to show those who look what I believe the world is becoming...
What it is you want to say with your photographs?
My photographs should make people giggle and then think twice and maybe even thrice!
How do you actually get your photographs to do that?
The photographs are a juxtaposition of various objects and situations in the streets which come together by chance.Ā
How do you develop ideas?
I develop ideas by lying flat in bed and thinking and trying to create dreams.Ā Unfortunately the dreams are now becoming reality so it's good to show how things used to be...Ā Ā Ā Ā
Who has influenced you the most?
From a technical point of view and also philosophical, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Do they influence your thinking and your practice?
Very much so.Ā
What dreams and goals inspired you to succeed?
I was inspired to succeed by meeting John Deakin, the well-known fashion photographer of Vogue.Ā However, he said he always considered himself a street photographer and advised me to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and go to markets... and photograph the hardness of an ashtray and a guy digging his chick...Ā A few days later, I happened by chance to see an exhibition of his, under a bookshop and coffee bar in Soho, called My Paris...Ā I had never seen such stark and bleak grainy photographs...Ā I was soon on my way to Paris where I learned my trade on the streets...
Harold Chapman Deal Kent
The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel was a place of eccentrics, prostitutes and artists. It was aĀ cheap hotel on Rue GĆ®t-Le-coeur in the cityās Latin Quarter that has now become synonymous with creativity and a metaphor for 1960s Paris. When the Beat Hotel closed its doors in 1964, Chapman was the last guest to leave. The collection of photographs he had taken there provide an artistic and historic record of the period including Brion Gysin and William Burroughs.
Brion Gysin with the Dream Machine Paris 1960
Madame Rachou, Proprietor of the Beat Hotel, William Burroughs, Paris 1960
Booker Prize-winning British novelist, Ian McEwan says:Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āIf 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.āāØāØ
Harold Chapman once my mentor and tutor in Deal, Kent. Both Ricoh addicts and Lomo freaks! Still going strong.
āHarold Chapman at 90ā² Not only The Beat Hotel showing at Linden Hall Gallery, Deal, Kent. June/July 2017.
Celebrating our sisters, mothers, daughters, wives, friends, partners, grandmothers & granddaughters on World Womenās Day. ā¢ In a roundabout way, Carolyn was the reason Allen moved west to San Francisco, since she brought Neal with her, settling in Los Gatos, inducing Allen to follow. And within a few short years in the Bay Area, Allen wrote Howl, America, Sun Flower Sutra, & read with the Six Gallery poets and published his first collection of poetry. Carolyn was never terribly fond of Allen, took no pleasure in his affairs with Neal, but they remained life long friends.Ā Ā Carolyn Cassady,Ā Ā Allenās kitchen, East 12th Street, NYC June 1993 (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate)Ā Ā #beatgeneration #carolyncassady #allenginsberg #nealcassady #beatgeneration #carolyncassady #allenginsberg #nealcassady #offtheroad #thegirlsbehindthescenes #beatniks #beatpoets #poetry #thefirstthird #jackkerouac #girlpower #womenofthebeatgeneration (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9eZcT1BpA5/?igshid=nic3ihzaz7bo
In a roundabout way, Carolyn was the reason Allen moved west to San Francisco, since she brought Neal with her, settling in Los Gatos, inducing Allen to follow. And within a few short years in the Bay Area, Allen wrote Howl, America, Sun Flower Sutra, & read with the Six Gallery poets and published his first collection of poetry. Carolyn was never terribly fond of Allen, took no pleasure in his affairs with Neal, but they remained life long friends.Ā Ā Carolyn Cassady,Ā Ā Allenās kitchen, East 12th Street, NYC June 1993 (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate)Ā Ā #beatgeneration #carolyncassady #allenginsberg #nealcassady #beatgeneration #carolyncassady #allenginsberg #nealcassady #offtheroad #thegirlsbehindthescenes #beatniks #beatpoets #poetry #thefirstthird #jackkerouac #girlpower #womenofthebeatgeneration (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jlpg0hovW/?igshid=1j8xijmiai4cx
