Item #39736 PHOTOGRAPH. An original b/w photograph of Michael X by Harold Chapman.
PHOTOGRAPH. An original b/w photograph of Michael X by Harold Chapman.

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PHOTOGRAPH. An original b/w photograph of Michael X by Harold Chapman.

22.5x14.3cm. Photographer’s stamps to verso, with subject’s name written out in black ink. Probably printed in the 1980s.

The exact circumstances are unclear, but the photographer informed this cataloguer that the session took place at some point in either 1966 or 1967 at a flat in Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Swiss Cottage, then being rented to a BBC cameraman, and that having got the pictures “the roll of film went off on the next plane to New York to be published in the New York Times”, though he “never saw the published pictures”. The address in Fitzjohn’s Avenue is likely to have been the flat de Freitas shared with his Canadian girlfriend, Nancy Bacal.

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