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The first time I saw a picture by David Hamilton
I was impressed by the magic of lights and
colors that manages to combine them in a truly unique experience and I was even more incredulous to discover that he did not use filters or a sort of manipulation as well.
If you are interested in photography, you might have already heard
the term “the Hamilton look”.
David Hamilton photography involves images that have a look
that makes them resemble oil paintings rather than detailed crisp
photos. He is perhaps the photographer who best symbolizes the hedonistic spirit typical of late 70s and 80s. At
that time, his soft-focus images of young girls camped everywhere in
posters, magazines, books and newspapers, becoming really a mass phenomenon.
Hamilton is as obsessed in finding a pure and poetic beauty, with innate elegance and formally perfect. Many
have tried to steal the secret of his photographs, but he has always
revealed that "there was no secret .... only the beauty, innocence and
fragility". For him the "teenage girl" is the perfect symbol of pure
beauty, not yet touched by the adult world, in which all the attitudes lose their spontaneity.
