David Hamilton

See also: Hamilton

David Hamilton is a British Photographe born the April 15th 1933.

Biographical elements

David Hamilton passes his childhood to London. During the Second world war, it remains some time in the Dorset, whose pretty landscapes inspire its work of photographer until today. At the end of the war, it goes back to London to finish its studies.

Employed in an office of Architect, it becomes aware of its artistic talents, and at 20 years, moves with Paris, where it works like graphic designer for Peter Knapp of the magazine She . After being themselves made known, and whereas he always works for She , it is recruited as artistic director by Queen Magazine , in station in London. It understands however that it prefers Parisian life, and sets out again soon. Of return to Paris, he becomes artistic director for the store chain Printemps . Whereas it is always employed, it begins its career of professional photograph. Its oneiric and air style will meet an immediate success.

Its photographs are very required by magazines such as Realités , Twen , Photo , etc At the end of the Sixties, its style is clearly and inevitably recognizable. Among his achievements one can quote the publication of 16 albums of photographs of which the combined sales largely exceeded the million, five films, of innombables publications in reviews, and quantities of exposures having met their public. David Hamilton is now recognized like a major actor of the photography of contemporary art.

According to the DazeReader site: “The work of David Hamilton is discussed in North America and in the United Kingdom, much less in continental Europe. At the end of the years 1990, the Christian conservatives in the United States were caught some with the bookstores which had in stock of the albums of David Hamilton, Sally Mann, and Jock Sturges, of which they regard work as “childish Pornographie”. Hamilton lives in the south of the France, where he affirms that his work forever caused such a reprobation. ”

In France

  • Quotation drawn from the preamble to the album the young girl - the topic of a photographer , Robert Laffont, 1978, ISBN 2-221-50026-1:
“If he were poet, he would be romantic. young girls with long pale chevelures and the clear eyes were indeed sung by Casimir Delavigne, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Alfred de Musset and so much of others. Hamilton infiltrates in an already long series of tender dreamers. ”

Books

  • Dreams off has Young Girl (1971)
  • the Dance (1972)
  • Sisters (1972)
  • Souvenirs - romantic and sensual Image-poems (1978)
  • The Best - an anthology of its more beautiful photographs
  • private Collection - Its personal album of intimate images
  • Bilitis - Photographs of the female perfection
  • the young girl - the topic of a photographer, editions Robert Laffont, (1978)
  • Flowers (1990)
  • Twenty-Five Years off year Artist (1992)
  • The Age off Innocence (1995)
  • has Place In The Sun (1996)
  • Holiday Snapshots (1999)
  • Venezia (2003)
  • the Seine Besten Bilder (1999)
  • Naked (2004) the

Films

See too

  • Hamilton Files, '' official Web site ''

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