
James Hamilton’s portraits of music world luminaries, reveal a previously unearthed master photographer, with compelling and rarely seen images of visionaries and artists from Madonna and Nico to Run DMC and the Beastie Boys. This very first book devoted to James Hamilton’s music photography unveils a treasure trove of arresting images, previously unpublished, or available until now only fleetingly in print periodicals.
James Hamilton served as staff photographer for the seminal music magazine Crawdaddy! in the 1960s, before later serving on staff at The Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, the Village Voice, and The New York Observer in turn. During his tenure at these iconic publications he recorded the rock, punk, disco and hip-hop eras as they simmered in Manhattan . His images capture such emerging artists Suzanne Vega, and Run DMC posing with a young Russell Simmons to relaxed visions of Joan Jett, and poet/songstress Patti Smith with Television’s Tom Verlaine. James Hamilton’s work moves beyond the label of “photojournalism” and into the realm of art, bringing a rarely seen soulfulness to the oversaturated world of celebrity photography.
Enter the world of James Hamilton, and gain access to a secret stash of rarely seen and previously unpublished celebrity images, predating the age of the internet, and existing for years only in print archives. Peter Tosh, LL Cool J, John Zorn, James Brown, Yoko Ono, Jerry Garcia, Joey Ramone, Rick Rubin, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Sarah Vaughan are all captured with stunning sensitivity and clarity—in 300 delicate duotone images—granting the viewer unprecedented contact to subtleties of his subjects’ personalities. Hamilton visually embraces his subjects, capturing them in all of their glorious humanity, and presenting portraits of celebrity in a light that is more personality than persona.

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Thanks to Ward for the word. While you're over at the Ecstatic Peace Library website, check out Party With Me Punker, which I mentioned back in March.
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