Shy eyes, looking coyly into the camera, this soft-focus and natural light, David Hamilton presented his models of the world – and with them, his female Ideal. “Nymphs”, he called it, Vladimir Nabokov would have said, “Lolitas”.
Young girl that just hit puberty, were most dear to him in front of the camera. Blonde and red-haired, fit, in his eyes, to the best of his pastel photography. In the seventies, David Hamilton, these images became famous, the wanted to stretch your soft-porn appearance during the sexual Revolution, no-one.
Later, around the turn of the Millennium, piled up the votes, the Hamilton is not accused only of Kitsch and tastelessness, but latent pedophilia. You could call him certainly as a “dirty old man” wrote Sarah Boxer in 1998 in the “New York Times”. His Film “Age of Innocence” is full of girls, the dreamy fingers in their mouths or in their panties were. “All the work willingly and almost all of them have exactly the same small Breasts.”
“simply indecent,”
more and more precisely the works of the British were analysed. The semi-Nude shots of young girls, in the world millions sold in the form of a book. His films, above all “Bilitis,” in which he brought in 1977, in moving images of his “Lolita”Aesthetic on the canvas.
In July 2005, were discovered in the context of a search and also Hamilton’s pictures in the possession of a pedophile. The images Hamiltons were “simply indecent”, was the verdict of a British attorney. The content could not be described as art; they were clearly of a sexual nature.
“My work has nothing to do with the vulgarity of our current epoch,” defended Hamilton in 2015, in an Interview with the celebrity magazine “Gala”. After that, it was still the British, who had spent the greater part of his life in France. Until he stood last week on the once again in the spotlight as the book “La consolation” appeared.
media lynchmobs and drugs
In the tape describes the French TV presenter Flavie Flament, how she was raped as a 13-Year-old on the edge of the photo shoots from a photographer. An international photographer.
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book cover: La Consolation/ Flavie Flamant
three more women came forward, who were abused according to his own statements, also by the photographers miss. In a talk show, the 42-Year-old said that it was the offender Hamilton. You have not mentioned his name, for fear of being sued. But the image that had taken Hamilton at the time of her emblazoned on the cover of “La Consolation”.
Hamilton confirmed that he had photographed Flament, he had, however, nothing Offensive guilty. “It is clear, that the instigator of the media lynchmobs in search of their 15 minutes of fame by defaming me in your novel,” said Hamilton. He’ll legally take action against Flament.
“He left the justice has no time”
it never came. According to the rescue service, the fire brigade was called in yesterday evening to 20:30 PM to Hamilton’s apartment in Paris. The photographer had suffered a cardiac arrest. An hour later, he had been declared dead, close to his body and it was discovered drugs.
A heavy blow for Flavie Flament. According to the data of your editor Karina Hocine, the actions were not Statute-barred in the case of Flaments, in the case of other Victims, but still. According to the French law, the limitation period for minors victims of rape, 20 years after Reaching the age of majority. On Tuesday, the French Minister for women’s rights, Laurence Rossignol, announced that it has commissioned Flavie Flament, to deal jointly with a criminal law expert with this issue.
“They told us it was a suicide,” said Hocine. “Of course, we are torn between horror and outrage, because he had the justice not have time to do their work”. Flament said, the horror of this news could never wipe out the agony of sleepless nights to victims.
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