Chelsea Hotel: Portraits from New York's Bohemian Mecca (Клаудио Эдингер: Отель Челси . Портреты из богемной мекки Нью-Йорка)

When the young Brazilian photographer Claudio Edinger moved into the Chelsea Hotel in the late 1970s, on the recommendation of a friend, he was just looking for a place to live. He had little idea that this twelve-story Victorian Gothic pile at 222 West 23rd Street had been, for almost a century, one of Manhattan's chief bohemian enclaves, where authors, writers, and musicians lived, played, and sometimes even worked. But Edinger was quickly fascinated by his new surroundings, and turned his lens on hotel residents both celebrated ' like Warhol superstar Viva, stylist and nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch, and composer Virgil Thomson ' and obscure, from Dan the mime to Corey the porn starlet. Together, these portraits ' taken in their subjects' memorably decorated living quarters ' form an invaluable record of the Chelsea Hotel community at one of the peaks of its flourishing, under legendary owner-manager Stanley Bard.