David Hamilton was a British photographer and film director known for his nude photographs of adolescent girls. Often controversial, the images evoke an effect of dreaminess through soft focus and varied grain. Using a photographic technique akin to painting, he has acknowledged the influence of on his style. Born on April 15, 1933 in London, United Kingdom, the artist initially found work as an art director, then a commercial photographer in the 1950s and 60s in France. In 1979, his film Laura was released in France—the movie blends melodrama with soft-core pornography, as wells as Hamilton’s hallmark soft focus.
He published numerous photobooks during his life, The Age of Innocence (1995) being one of his most popular. Similar to the work of and, Hamilton’s erotic subject matter caused complaints of indecency over the decades. In 2016, the photographer was accused of rape by four separate women who had served as former models. In an apparent suicide, the photographer was found dead with a plastic bag over his head on November 25, 2016 in Paris, France.
David Hamilton was a British photographer and film director known for his nude photographs of adolescent girls. View David Hamilton's artworks on artnet.
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British photographer David Hamilton has died in Paris on Friday night at the age of 83 after committing suicide, according to police sources. Mr Hamilton,who had lived much of his life in France and whose works had appeared in high-end fashion magazines, was found unresponsive in his home by a neighbour who alerted emergency services, the sources said. It comes as a French presenter who accused the photographer of raping her and several other victims when they were teenagers said his apparent suicide had denied them justice. Zaryadnoe ustrojstvo argo 3m instrukciya.
“By his cowardice, (Hamilton) condemns us again to silence and the inability to see him convicted. The horror of this news will never wipe out that of our sleepless nights,' said Flavie Flament. Famed for his soft-focus portraits of unclothed girls, Mr Hamilton last week denied allegations by a French radio host and three other women that he raped them while they were in their early teens.
'Today I am the subject of no legal proceedings. This oversteps the presumption of innocence. I am innocent and must considered so,' he told Agence France Presse last week. 'The instigator of this media lynching is seeking her quarter of an hour of fame through slander. I will be filing several legal complaints in the coming days,' he said. When she was 13 during a photo shoot at a nudist camp in Cap d'Agde, southern France, in the mid-1980s after persuading her parents to let him work alone with their daughter. She recounted the alleged rape in a book, The Consolation, out last month.
While she did not name Mr Hamilton in the work, she put his photograph of her as a young girl on its cover. Last Friday, she confirmed she was referring to him after being contacted by other women with near-identical allegations.
'When I chose with my publisher to put this photo on the cover, I knew that it would prompt other testimonies. And I can tell you that I wasn't the only one to have gone through this abuse, this rape by this photographer. I knew I couldn't be the only one,' Ms Flament, 42, told France 2. The case re-ignited a debate over the statutes of limitation for rape in France.
Currently, a woman cannot file for rape more than 20 years after reaching the age of 18. Ms Flamant said that the memories of the rape only returned to her when she was reaching 38 - too late to file for charges. On Tuesday, Laurence Rossignol, French women's rights minister, announced that she had nominated Ms Flament to conduct a 'mission' to look into whether the statutes of limitation should change. In interviews with Nouvel Observateur, the weekly magazine, two alleged victims recounted how a 'smiling' Mr Hamilton – then in his fifties – had approached them while they were 13 and 14 and on holiday with their parents in Cap d'Agde, where the photographer had bought a flat. They said he could be seen every day accompanied 'without fail by a very young slim blonde girl walking up and down the beach in search of models'. His posters were sold the world over and his postcards were on sale in all the seaside resort's shops. He had by then sold dozens of photographic books with combined sales well into the millions, five feature films, countless magazine publications and museum and gallery exhibitions.