You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen: The Music Photography - Rilegato

Jacobson, Mark; Moore, Thurston

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ISBN 10: 1616234954 ISBN 13: 9781616234959

Casa editrice: Ecstatic Peace Library, 2015

Riassunto

James Hamilton has a Romantic Eye. A slightly sullen, yet bemused gaze suggesting a smart and casual affair between subject and lens. He is a music lover, indeed a lover of all the sensual arts, but for my intention he is a man who lives by the charm of music. His heroes are the other-worldly: James Brown, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Smokey Robinson, Billie Holiday.

The hours, days, weeks, months I spent tiptoeing through four decades of James' contact sheets I realized the soul of the artist gleans genuine respect and distinct recognition from a photographer who shares their emotions. The messengers of music, the "angels"---as Sun Ra would suggest---play for a timeless existence. To capture them with photography is to defy their elusive state, to steal them to common ground, as is the journalist's duty. But like so few, James Hamilton solemnly suggests camaraderie, friendship and shared artistry. His photo archive, not only of music genius, but of street life, politics, filmmakers, poets, authors, and artists is an astounding history of late 20th century New York City. A time when the downtown world below 14th Street experienced it's ultimate existence as a true village of creative pursuit. One can still feel this last vestige of bohemia by taking a magic turn on any given street at any given time, but it is fleeting. And it's vintage glamour has a wizened smile in the shadowy recess of a newly minted lifestyle.

We depend on history to recount what is vanished, missed, dreamed of and mythologized. In James' archive I encounter a universe of sweetness, of salaciousness, and a spellbinding grace and natural wonderment that keeps me coming back to the city that defined romance for me and so many others. The romantic eye as love, as music---Thurston Moore

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James Hamilton Began as a Painter Studying at Pratt Institute in 1964. He spent the summer of '66 working as an assistant to a fashion photographer and did not return to school, deciding instead to make photographs of his life in New York City. In 1969 he spent five months hitch-hiking and taking pictures throughout America. After showing photos from a Texas music festival to editors at Crawdaddy!---the seminal rock `n' roll publication---he was hired as staff photographer. This launched a forty-year career of staff positions held at The Herald, Harper's Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Observer. He has worked on assignment for many magazines including Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and on set with directors George Romero, Francis Ford Coppola, Bill Paxton, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach and Andrew Jarecki producing film stills. This is his first monograph.

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• Editore: Ecstatic Peace Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1616234954
• ISBN 13: 9781616234959
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 251