16 May 2001

Browse our 16 May 2001 collection featuring 60 photos

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The Dutch Painter, Guy Harloff, who had his studio in the hotel		Gregory Corso Paris 1957		Flora Smith by Harold Chapman		Thomas Neurath, son of Walter Neurath of Thames & Hudson, book publishers.In 1960		Thomas Neurath in a fashionable trench coat, with Diane Wells, an English schoolteacher
Ian Sommerville in the Beat Hotel, Paris. 1960s		Ken Tindall, American writer and poet, who was working in the hotel on his novel		At Diane Barker's party, Belgian born Olivia de Haulleville, a poetess whose pseudonym		Thelma Shumsky, who later became my wife		William Guthrie in Rue Git-le-Coeur, winter 1956. In "Left Bank This Month"
Outside the Mistral bookstore, in Rue de la Bucherie. Left to right: Ken Tindall		Room 34. Notice for casual work, painting and plastering at a Polyclinic in Paris		Rue Git-le-Coeur, on the corner of the Quai des Grands Augustins. Left to right Tove		Early morning at Le Royal: local people drinking coffee at the circular "zinc"		Almost but not quite! These 2 sharp-eyed nuns spotted us before we could carry out
Front of The Beat Hotel		Madame Rachou with Harold Norse.He asked me to take these pictures in January 1963		The "terrasse" of theTabac St-Michel was one of the favourite meeting places		"Cyclops" Lester outside the Tabac St-Michel		American action painter William Morris, outside the Beat Hotel, 9, Rue Git-le-Coeur
Public telephones were not in telephone boxes, but in cafes		Chez Jean, in Boulevard St-Germain; one of the few restaurants in Paris that still		Lee Forest, an American fashion model, winter 1956. Behind her is the 11th century		My Austin 7, which I would park on the Quai des Grands Augustins at the end of Rue		Rue Git-le-Coeur, which means "where lies the heart"
The cafe door		View from Room 41		Madame Rachou counting out 40 centimes, the price of a cup of coffee, for which Keith		Diane Barker and Mirtaud. The only room with a view of St. Chapelle was 41, which		Francois Massal, photographing me after I had photographed a group of diners in the
Lunchtime in the cafe. Workmen could have their lunches re-heated on Madame Rachou's		Gregory Corso, like myself, was a great nun-collector. In Place de Furstenberg, St		The main entrance of the hotel. The door, which was never locked, made a penetrating		Eunice Richards and Volkmar von Alten in the reading room of the Mistral bookstore		Nick Smart, from the USA, in Place St-Andre-des-Arts. He organised the selling of
Alex Campbell relaxing in the Monaco Bar, which was popular with the Beats..."My		View from Room 27		"the flea-bag shrine will be documented by art historians"... (Harold Norse		Gregory Corso behind a priest on the Ile da la Cite. Spring 1957		Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg in Rue St. Andre-des-Arts, December 1956. At that time
The Beat Hotel; a thirteenth-class establishment; looking towards the Quai des Grands		On the road. A band of hitch-hikers resting in a popular meeting-place on the corner		Cafe le Royal in the heart of St.Germain-des-Pres was the nightly meeting place of		Bob Grosvenor with tuba, "Pug" with guitar, and Verta Kali Smart in headscarf		Rue Git-le-Coeur
Thelma Shumsky from New York, on the corner of Rue de l'Hirondelle and Rue		View from Room 29		Left to right: Robin Page, Canadian painter; Peter Bishop, English journalist; Larry		Diane Barker and American poet Angus Maclise		Madame Rachou, described by Dixie Nimmo as "pugnacious" and "kindly"
William Burroughs, outside the Beat Hotel. 1958		Daytime at the Tabac St-Michel; one of the waiters whom at night I would try to avoid		William Burroughs in the Beat Hotel in Paris, 1960		The pictures of Dominique's room were commissioned by her parents after she had died		Left to right: Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, on a double-sided bench, Place St
Harold Chapman, photographer and author of The Beat Hotel. Paris 1960s		William Burroughs in the Beat Hotel, Paris, France. 1958. Photo by Harold Chapman		Horsedrawn plantform in Hop Fields		Piero Heliczer, poet of the "Dead Language Press, visiting the hotel for a free		Ian Sommerville in Montparnasse