Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic John Kasmin is sitting in his west London townhouse surrounded by the work of artists he\u00a0once represented. Some are better known than others. One is truly stratospheric. \u201cPeople always say that I discovered David Hockney, as though he didn\u2019t discover himself,\u201d says the 89-year-old collector and art dealer who gave the Yorkshireman his first solo show.\u00a0Six decades on, the pioneering gallerist is about to have his own starring moment in Kasmin\u2019s Camera, a book and selling exhibition of his photographs at Lyndsey Ingram Gallery. The images, long concealed within innocuous black-backed photo albums, are \u201clike a diary\u201d, he says. Shot mostly on 35mm film, they show the artists at work, rest and play. Many are being brought to light for the first time: abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler smokes a cigarette in her New York studio; Howard Hodgkin stands in an Indian palace on the banks of the Ganges; and Frank Stella is spreadeagled in swimming shorts in Laguna Beach.And yet, more than anyone else, his photographs are of Hockney: Hockney lounging around in the Kasmin Gallery, or sunbathing alongside fashion designer Ossie Clark and painter Patrick Procktor. A series in Los Angeles was taken shortly after he moved there in 1964, while others document a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway. \u201cWe were really tremendous buddies,\u201d says Kasmin, who captured his friend winning the John Moores Painting Prize in Liverpool in 1967; holidaying in France in 1969; and visiting his mother in Yorkshire in 1975.\u00a0People always say that I discovered David, as though he didn\u2019t discover himselfThe two men have known each other since 1961, when\u00a0Kasmin was running Bond Street\u2019s New London Gallery \u2013 owned by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer, the founders of\u00a0the adjacent Marlborough Fine Art \u2013 and Hockney was a\u00a0student at the Royal College of Art. \u201cWhat made me want\u00a0to open a gallery was that I\u2019d fallen in love with big\u00a0American paintings,\u201d says Kasmin. \u201cI do get\u00a0slightly edgy about being remembered primarily as the\u00a0man who\u00a0started David Hockney.\u201d \u00a0Nevertheless, Kasmin was instrumental in promoting his new acquaintance. \u201cI tried to get them [Lloyd and Fischer] to take on David Hockney when he was still a student,\u201d he recalls. \u201cThey said, \u2018You can sell some of his work, but we think it\u2019s trash.\u2019 I couldn\u2019t have it out in the gallery, but I would sell the odd bit from behind the velvet curtain.\u201d\u00a0When Kasmin struck out on his own as a dealer, his home became his HQ. \u201cHe used to have a kind of salon every Tuesday night,\u201d Hockney has said of the time (the artist, now\u00a086, was unavailable for an interview). \u201cAll kinds of people came, and I met the art world for the first time. [Kasmin] was very knowledgeable about pictures, and I was part of his eccentric taste.\u201dKasmin first showed Hockney in his eponymous London gallery (the first architect-designed commercial space of its kind in the UK) in 1963. Called Pictures with People in, the Yorkshire artist\u2019s figurative paintings made him\u00a0\u201cthe odd man out\u201d among the gallery\u2019s roster of abstractionists such as Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler. Yet the sense of camaraderie and collaboration in Kasmin and Hockney\u2019s dealer-artist relationship is palpable in Kasmin\u2019s images. In one pair of photographs, the men have\u00a0their faces playfully squashed up against the gallery door \u2013 Hockney also painted this image of Kasmin.\u00a0\u201cLyndsey [Ingram] has a theory that when David looks at me, you can see that he\u2019s really fond of me,\u201d says Kasmin. He adds, laughing: \u201cLyndsey is a Hockney worshipper.\u201d Kasmin\u2019s photographs of Hockney in India in 1977 are especially striking. \u201cDavid was terribly unhappy as he\u2019d had\u00a0a falling-out with Henry Geldzahler [curator of 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art],\u201d Kasmin remembers of the trip to Mumbai, where he took his friend to cheer him up. \u201cLook how grim he looks here!\u201d he exclaims, pointing to a moody picture of Hockney at the Raj Mahal in Udaipur, Rajasthan. \u201cHe does gloom very well.\u201dA photo depicting Hockney sleeping at Dubai airport also stirs memories. \u201cIt\u2019s an innocent picture of the horizontal genius\u2026 losing his American Express card! We\u00a0discovered afterwards, when we arrived at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, that he hadn\u2019t got his credit card.\u00a0I think it\u2019s at this point that he lost it.\u201d\u00a0Ingram admits being overwhelmed when presented with the albums. \u201cThere are so many good images, taken by\u00a0someone who was not only in the most amazing places with the most amazing people, but who also had this ability to take very candid but very skilled photographs. They\u2019re wonderfully romantic. It\u2019s been really hard to whittle them down.\u201d One hundred and six are included in the final exhibition selection, carefully chosen to present Kasmin\u2019s most famous artist as part of a bigger picture that also included the art critic Clement Greenberg and fellow dealer Lawrence Rubin. The photographs are available as 8in x 10in prints in editions of 25 (\u00a3950 each). Selected images will be\u00a0printed as 10in x 15in editions of 10, at \u00a32,200.\u201cIt\u2019s rather nice having something to do when you\u2019re a retired old chap,\u201d chuckles Kasmin of the project. \u201cIt\u2019s not so much about fame, glory or money \u2013 it\u2019s the activity of it all.\u201d At nearly 90, he is still impressively sprightly, gleefully recalling how his love affair with photography began. It\u2019s an evocative tale that begins in 1950s Soho, in the home and gallery of Victor Musgrave, \u201can eccentric Bohemian poet and art dealer\u201d and his Russian wife, Ida Kar \u2013 \u201ca serious photographer of people \u2013 mostly artists\u201d, whose work is featured in the National Portrait Gallery.\u201cI used to help Victor in his gallery. I was also the cook and, well, actually, I had to help him by being Ida\u2019s lover so that she wouldn\u2019t keep hammering on his door with an axe\u00a0when he was in bed with [his mistress, dancer] Lotte Berk,\u201d says Kasmin. \u201cMy first experience of cameras was having to pose naked on a red silk chaise longue while Ida trained her camera on my penis.\u201d\u00a0A photograph of his bottom also features prominently in his memory of the time. \u201cDavid Hockney insisted on having it pinned up behind the mirror in his bedroom,\u201d recalls Kasmin of the image, whose whereabouts today is unknown. \u201cBut it did crop up in a film about David\u2019s life,\u201d he adds. \u201cTo my amazement, my bottom subliminally flashed past.\u201d\u00a0The two remain close friends \u2013 although \u201cI think he knows that I\u2019m not that wild about his work of the past 30\u00a0years\u201d, says Kasmin. How does he feel about being the featured artist of this show? \u201cI think it\u2019s hilarious!\u201d he bursts out, pointing out proudly that one of his Hockney pictures from India is now in New York\u2019s Morgan Library & Museum. \u201cIt\u2019s like jumping to the other side of the counter. Instead of being the salesman, I\u2019m now the goods.\u201d\u00a0Kasmin\u2019s Camera is at Lyndsey Ingram, 20 Bourdon StreetLondon W1, from 26 June to 30 August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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