Recently, famed photographer William Eggleston sat down in El Quixote, the Hotel's bar, to give an interview to The New Yorker. He refers to the Chelsea as his favorite place, almost.
“It’s my favorite place, almost,” he said of the Chelsea. “We go way back.” He pointed toward an interior entrance to the restaurant. “See those double doors ? They only open one way now, so that if you go out of here into the lobby you have to go out to the street to get in again. Back in the days, the hotel was full of undesirable people.” Like who? “Me and the Sex Pistols.”
Eggleston was one of the first fine-art photographers to use color in his work. Much of his work depicts the American South. One of his more famous portfolios features work from the 1970s when he was hanging out with Warhol Superstar, Viva in the Chelsea Hotel.
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