Post, she describes how she first saw some of Hamilton's photos during her own adolescence, and what they meant to her: This makes "iconic" a fitting word here, because Hamilton's work has been described in religious language, for instance by July Stars (Jaja Hargreaves), a professional photographer of a later generation. The word "iconic" also has religious overtones - an "icon" was originally a sacred image. Whether you like them or not, his works represent something of the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time. According to Perry Hinton (a British specialist in cultural theory) Hamilton was in fact "one of the most popular photographers in the world" back then. ![]() His photographs found a huge market in the nineteen seventies, for instance as wall posters and photobooks. ![]()
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