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The Star photographer David Hamilton had a distinctive style: in soft contours drawn Nude paintings of young women. This earned him the accusation of pornography. Recently, it accused some of his former Models who have sexually abused. Now 83, was found-Year-old dead in his Paris apartment.
The circumstances of his death riddle to give. French media reported that Hamilton had killed himself; this was not confirmed on Saturday. Only a few days ago, some of his former Models had testified that Hamilton did she needs as a young girl sexually abused. The photographer has denied these allegations.
The French TV presenter Flavie Flament had written in a published in October, the book that she had been raped in 1987 at the age of 13 years by a famous photographer. In the last week, you said that this photographer had been Hamilton. After two more women accused him. Hamilton rejected the allegations: “I am innocent and have the right to be so considered,” he said last Wednesday, as Europe 1 reported. On Friday evening, a neighbour of Hamilton was found unconscious in his apartment, as the station Europe 1 reported. The summoned paramedics had him can no longer revive.
“was not there The time to let justice be done
Flaments lecturer Karina Hocine”said Flament was destroyed by the news of your death on the ground. We are horrified and outraged. The time was not there to let justice prevail.
Hamilton was the epitome of the blur in photography. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was, with Nude photos of young women and girls known. His motives were preferably Scandinavians and Germans between 12 and 16 years of age. Beauty and eroticism à la Hamilton sold millions of copies, in albums and on posters. His Work has been printed in high-fashion magazines. But already in the 1990s, he had to Work, brought the accusation of pornography.
critics have accused Hamilton earlier a penchant for pedophilia before
Also in the cinema to Hamilton with erotic Material was successful: His Film “Bilitis” (1976) was also rolls a success as the strip “Tender cousins” (1980) with Anja Schüte in a the main. Hamilton was not, however, as a theater artist: “I turned to movies only, because you come to me,” he said later.
Hamilton began his career in a roundabout way. After his apprenticeship as a carpenter, he worked in an architect’s office, before he moved to Paris and to the graphic designers and photographers to abandon engineering.
at the beginning of the 1990s were seen his naked pictures more and more often also critical. Critics accused him he was corny, and criticized his idea of “perfect femininity”. Especially from the US and UK allegations of soft pornography, and the latent pedophilia. The sale of his books was partially prohibited for minors, and there were protest marches against his works.
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