Lost Photos of the Chelsea Hotel in the 1970s

Albert Scopin ’s images of 1970s New York carry a spectral sense of colour; some are double-exposed, the subjects passing through one another, appearing sheer against crowded streets. In one frame, a man in a silver coat and a bright red scarf roller-skates through the geometric lobby of a hotel. In others, people’s cheeks are an unreal red, their faces painted with heavy costume makeup. Inside the hotel, Scopin depicts bedroom walls scrawled with writing; turn a pagehellip;

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