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Remembrance of things past : the cultural context and the rise and fall in the popularity of photographer David Hamilton
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Hinton, Perry R. (2016) Remembrance of things past : the cultural context and the rise and fall in the popularity of photographer David Hamilton. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 3 (1). pp. 1-13. 1164930. doi:10.1080/23311983.2016.1164930
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2016.1164930
Abstract
For 10 years, from the late 1960s, the France-based British photographer David Hamilton gained widespread public acclaim. His work appeared ubiquitous in popular culture, from photo shoots for Vogue to the publicity photography for the Nina Ricci perfume L’Air du Temps. His books, featuring soft focus imagery of young women in idyllic summer settings devoid of the symbols of modernity, became bestsellers in many countries, bought in their hundreds of thousands, and captured a romantic and escapist aesthetic of the time that influenced cultural products from advertising to fashion. This article examines his work and its public reception to explain both its initial phenomenal popularity and subsequent disregard. It is argued here that his photography provides insight into the cultural Zeitgeist of that early period and, by charting its reception, changing sociocultural sensibilities can be observed.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TR Photography | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Hamilton, David, 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation, Sex in popular culture | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cogent Arts & Humanities | ||||
| ISSN: | 2331-1983 | ||||
| Official Date: | 11 April 2016 | ||||
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| Volume: | 3 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-13 | ||||
| Article Number: | 1164930 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/23311983.2016.1164930 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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