Background
James Hamilton was born on November 20, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
(In 1977 Pinball! was published by E. P. Dutton in New Yor...)
In 1977 Pinball! was published by E. P. Dutton in New York. James Hamilton shot the photographs and Roger C. Sharpe authored the text. The book provides a detailed chronicle of pinball's rise and becoming of a national pastime, starting with its pre-war roots and tracing its history up to its ubiquity in now long-extinct bars, penny arcades, and coffee houses across the US and in Europe. Hamilton’s color photographs of the machines themselves, as well as the places in which they lived and the people who played them, provides viewers with a time capsule of the pinball-crazed era of the mid-seventies.
https://www.amazon.com/Pinball-Roger-C-Sharpe/dp/B000JD59AE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pinball%21+E.+P.+Dutton&qid=1579095433&sr=8-1
1977
(The book revealed his vast archive of previously unpublis...)
The book revealed his vast archive of previously unpublished photography spanning four decades of the music scene. Containing over 300 black and white photographs, the book includes portrait sittings, performance shots, and reportage. The musicians pictured represent a wide variety of genres such as Duane Allman, Dolly Parton, Madonna, Eubie Blake, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Bing Crosby, Jerry Lee Lewis, Glenn Branca, The Ramones, Gil Scott-Heron, Laurie Anderson and Bob Marley. Also included are portraits of music critics like Robert Christgau, Legs McNeil and Nat Hentoff.
https://www.amazon.com/James-Hamilton-Should-Heard-Photography/dp/1616234954/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=James+Hamilton+You+Should+Have+Heard+Just+What+I+Seen&qid=1579095500&sr=8-1
2010
James Hamilton was born on November 20, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
James Hamilton studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 1964 to 1966.
In 1969 James Hamilton began hitch-hiking around the US, spending five months on the road capturing images wherever he landed. He created fake press passes and spent three days shooting musicians as they performed at the Texas International Pop Festival. Upon his return to New York City he built a darkroom in his apartment, processed the film, and began printing. He took the images from the festival to the newly launched music magazine, Crawdaddy! and was hired on the spot as their staff photographer. Thus began a decades long career that would find James photographing the NYC music scene during some of its most fervent and fertile years, capturing the likes of Nico, Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, Beastie Boys, and James Brown.
James Hamilton served as staff photographer for numerous publications, including Crawdaddy! (1969-1971), The Herald (1971), Harper’s Bazaar (1971-1975), the Village Voice(1974-1993), and the New York Observer (1993-1909) while contributing to many iconic magazines including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and New York.
During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, James Hamilton photographed war and civil unrest in areas including El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Haiti and Grenada. He was situated in the Philippines during the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, and in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square massacre (sneaking photos past authorities that became some of the few to appear in US newspapers).
In 1980, James Hamilton began also shooting stills for films. After meeting George A. Romero, he was enlisted to capture stills for his next two movies, Knightriders and Creepshow, following with work for Francis Ford Coppola on the set of The Outsiders. He went on to shoot extensively with Wes Anderson, photographing the sets of The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited, as well as on the set of Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale.
(The book revealed his vast archive of previously unpublis...)
2010(In 1977 Pinball! was published by E. P. Dutton in New Yor...)
1977