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World Hotels - Inside: The Chelsea Hotel
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List Price: $49.95
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Manufacturer: powerHouse Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9781576874066
ISBN: 1576874060
Label: powerHouse Books
Manufacturer: powerHouse Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2008-02-15
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Studio: powerHouse Books
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 it is rebirth or destruction. Artists such as Jasper Johns, Jack Kerouac, and Ethan Hawke (in addition to those listed above) have been drawn Inside by a seemingly irresistible magnetic force. Julia Calfee has lived and photographed in the Chelsea Hotel for four years. As she points out, "When I photographed at the Chelsea Hotel, I would stay in a space or situation 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." 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 Chelsea Hotel.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Loved it!
Comment: Staying in the Chelsea Hotel was a joyous and unique experience. Julia Calfee's photographs captured the essence of this experience. A brilliant and beautiful book.....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Simply fabulous!
Comment: I am not an art critic, but I was enthralled with each and every page in this book. I felt the raw emotion inside every photo. I felt like I was there.
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