{"product_id":"inside-the-chelsea-hotel-9781576874066","title":"Inside: The Chelsea Hotel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside: The Chelsea Hotel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Julia Calfee. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781576874066.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\n“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.\"\n\n“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"powerHouse Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256695185461,"sku":"ByrdShop_1576874060","price":348.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781576874066_db9eee08-e44b-43e9-9941-82d3b6aad94d.jpg?v=1779960501","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/inside-the-chelsea-hotel-9781576874066","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}