American Bruce H. Axler (died aged 69 in 2012) lived in Paris in the 1960s learning the art of being a restaurateur. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that Axler contacted him after meeting a Beat Hotel resident in the famous central fresh food market of Les Halles. This photo was taken in 1962 when Axler had got a job for a small magazine published in English in Paris where he was writing a column once a week on Haute Cuisine: Cooking in a Paris Garret. Later he became the first food critic for the Herald Tribune. He returned to America and had television programmes and wrote cookbooks.