Holly Bower at the Chelsea

Holly Bower represents a piece of the Chelsea's artistic and activist heritage. She was the first woman still photographer to be admitted into the photographer's union.  Filmmaker Seppo Korpippa, (who, by the way, has the same Finnish publisher as Charles Bukowski) tells us how the footage below came about:

I met photographer Holly Bower in Chelsea Hotel in november 1990. I was in New York with the group pf people form Finnish cultural buraucrats. We visited museums, Carnegie Hall, Martha Graham Dance School... After some days I got enough and took a taxi to Chelsea Hotel. One bird form the group wanted to come with me. We met Holly at the downstairs restaurant El Quojote. She invited us to her apartment and we were having good time. I think that it was the best part of the trip.

I have visited New York many times since that but I have never went back to Chelsea Hotel. I wonder what Holly is doing nowadays? Maybe I should try to find it out when I go next time to NYC...

Cheers from Helsinki, Finland where spring came early this year!

Seppo Korpipaa