David Hamilton, famous for his photos of girls aniñadas and marked by controversy – Terra Argentina

The british photographer David Hamilton, found dead Friday in his residence in Paris, became known around the world for his photos of girls aniñadas, many times naked, bathed in an air of nostalgic and fuzzy, which became his trademark style.

The furore caused by his work, which sold millions of copies, was regarded then as old-fashioned and suggestive images of the models always on the edge of the passage to puberty were counted with other eyes.

In your photos, the light enters as if it had been sifted and the images saved with a halo, as if the photographer had blown over the lens, a style that became his trademark, that his admirers christened as “the blur hamiltonian”.

His style marked the photography of the 1970s and 1980s, but after it passed from fashion, and some of his photos are even disturbing to many.

Hamilton came to the fore in the media in recent weeks after several women accused him of having violated when they were teenagers, among them tv presenter French Flavie Flament.

Hamilton denied on Tuesday accusations and threatened to file a defamation lawsuit. “I am innocent, and I should be considered as such,” he said in a statement sent Tuesday to the AFP.

In the 1970s, his books sold millions of copies, without counting the posters that decorated thousands of rooms of the teenagers of the time, in addition to printed postcards and puzzles made from his work.

Hamilton was born in London in 1933. He was raised by his mother. He studied architecture but it was in Paris where he began his career in the fashion industry.

First set foot in the women’s magazine Elle, where she worked as a creative and after he served as artistic director of the Printemps department stores.

His career came to its climax with their incursions in the cinema with the film “Bilitis” in “Tendres cousines” (Tender premium) and “Premiers désirs” (First desires), all of which are of a strong sexual content. .

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“We talked a lot about the blur hamiltonian, some even said that I blew the lens to give it that famous halo at my pictures,” he said, excited by the debate in an interview with the magazine Paris Match in 2015.

But this style that mixed in the composition to girls aniñadas, sometimes before puberty, half-naked, adorned by flowers in the bucolic countryside was even laughed at in later decades.

this change in the way we perceive its images was also influenced by the evolution of the look of the society with regard to the exposure of the body of girls and adolescents.

in Front of the controversy of the last few weeks, Hamilton defended himself with firmness.

“I Am innocent, and I should be considered as such,” he said.

The news of his death profoundly affected Flament, who reacted almost immediately and said to the AFP that he was “devastated” by the news. “The horror of this ad is not going to achieve clear never the of our sleepless nights,” he said.