Julian Wasser, the photojournalist who took this historic Eve Babitz chess photo, is best known for chronicling L.A.’s celebrity culture. during the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the most indelible images of that time are his. Wasser died on February 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, aged 89. No matter what they thought in New York about everyone else being totally out of it and hopeless, on the West Coast things were happening. Mirandi Babitz: My mother and dad knew Walter and Evie were seeing each other, and they knew Walter was married. But they liked Walter. They thought he was good for the art scene, good for L.A.

Mirandi Babitz: I don’t remember if I said anything to Marcel. He was quiet. I did talk to Andy, though. I said to him, “Campbell’s is my favorite kind of soup.” I didn’t know what else to say! He seemed to like that O.K. He almost smiled. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz. Beginner, club and master levels. Assisted play and calculation training. But now get this. The 2017 Womens World Tournament is in Iran this year. Nazi won’t be going, because she refuses to adhere to hijab dress code. And thats not a joke by the way. Eve Babitz was born in Hollywood in 1943, the daughter of an artist couple. She partied in California bohemian circles and met many celebrities like Jim Morrison, Steve Martin and Harrison Ford. Babitz later published several books about his youth in California, as well as producing several works of art. Late in 1990, when the Duchamp-on-the-West-Coast book ( West Coast Duchamp, Greenfield Press) was being prepared, the Shoshana Wayne Gallery used our picture, blown up big on silver paper, to announce its own show of his work in conjunction with a symposium to be held in the Santa Monica Public Library. Unlike the party at the Green Hotel, to this thing I was very invited.Of course, by now even I have forgiven Walter for leaving L.A., and we are happy to give him any chance we can, and though most of those Ruscha fans probably had no idea the man sitting beside him was really the One as far as art in L.A. is concerned, we who were there realize that Ed couldn’t have happened without the strange days of long ago. Irving Blum: The art was found and bought, maybe with Brooke’s money, but by Dennis. If anything, she was very disturbed by the work at the beginning. At the entrance to the show, there was an old photograph from a long-ago opening in Paris that showed Marcel and a woman as Adam and Eve. I noticed this as I went in, and it seemed sweet to me, they both were so young and French and skinny.

Julian Wasser: Marva Hannon? Hannon? Her name was Marva Lotsky, and she didn’t go to Beverly Hills High. She went to Hamilton High. I think she died a couple years ago. I will not wear a hijab and support women’s oppression. Even if it means missing one of the most important competitions of my career” – Nazi Paikidze(On missing the 2017 Womens World Tournament) I knew it had to be him because suddenly I felt so much better— that bedside manner of his permeates a room. It’s, like, half desperado, half Lourdes. Julian Wasser: Time told me to cover the event and so that’s what I did. I knew it was going to be big. Duchamp hadn’t had a show in something like 50 years.

The story of a picture

By that time, I was living in this little paper bungalow—one room with a typewriter—on Bronson Avenue in Hollywood. I had a horrible old Chevy with stalactites growing down from the interior like cobwebs. I was writing my memoirs, of course, because I’d been to Europe (like Henry James) and wanted to write a book called Travel Broadens, about being Daisy Miller, only from Hollywood. Poor Europe never recovered was the point of my book. I thought of myself as extremely decadent and thought that anyone who had graduated from Hollywood High had nothing to learn. Marcel Duchamp was born in France in 1887 into a family of artists. His exposure to Cubist art, literature and the technical developments of his time influenced his artistic work, which included “ready-mades” ( Objet trouvé), where everyday objects were transformed into works of art. Duchamp was known for this type of art, the most famous being the “Fountain”, an upside-down urinal. In the 1920s, Duchamp turned his attention to chess and almost stopped his artistic work to become a professional chess player. He played in five Chess Olympiads for the French national team and even published a book on chess. Nazi won the 2016 U.S. Womens Chess Championship. She was crowned the best female chess player in the world. A visitor looks at Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). The public urinal that Duchamp transformed into a work of art and is seen as the paradigm of the readymade. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/REX