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James Hamilton is an American photographer, best known for his documentation of the New York City film, art and music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
Apr 26, 2024 · A new documentary revisits the career of photographer James Hamilton, who chronicled New York's cultural and social fabric over 40 years.
Apr 26, 2024 · Hamilton’s photos appeared everywhere, though he’s best known for his work as a photographer at The Village Voice from 1974 to 1993. His style is distinctive: sharp contrasts, bright...
- How Old Were You When You Were First Coming Into New York on Your own?
- Did You Ever See Her there?
- Did Arbus Ever Photograph there?
- He Had A Darkroom in Westport?
- So You Quit Pratt? Well, You Probably Learned More Working with Alberto.
- Were You Taking Pictures on The Road The Whole Way?
- But Don’T You Think That Portraits Are More Difficult?
- Define “Torturous”?
- But You Just Thought of Her as Being Someone You Work with?
- Sounds warm.
12 or 13. I had a grandmother who introduced me to all the cool things in New York. She’d say, “Oh, we have to go to this place called Hubert’s Museum.” And it was a Diane Arbus hangout. It was on Times Square, between 8th and Broadway.
No, well I wouldn’t have known her. The main drag for all of the theaters was between Broadway and 8th. Every theater had its own genre. In the middle of the block was Hubert’s Museum, on the top floor had game machines – not pinball, because pinball was illegal (Mayor La Guardia banned it) – but they had other kinds of game machines. And then you ...
She was there all the time; photographing Estelline Pike, the Sword Swallower, that was a famous picture of hers. The Jungle Creep. She photographed everybody that I saw in those days, the freakier people. I used to hang out in the Times Square area, I’d go up and down 6th Avenue, they had a whole slue of backdate magazine stores. I’d go in there a...
Yes, in Westport. He’d invite me over to the darkroom and showed me how it worked. And I was intrigued, but I was just never a technological person. I started at Pratt in 1964 and in that first year I would always go home to Connecticut. I decided after the second year to stay in New York, when a couple of my friends from high school got the apartm...
It’s the Sixties in New York, gorgeous women, I’ve got my own apartment in Greenwich Village, and I’ve got a studio to work in. I could develop my film in a darkroom, I’m learning lights and all that which is great, and I figured, I’m a photographer, fuck it, so I never went back. I never regretted it. I worked with him for two years, lived with a ...
Oh yeah, with my Lloyd bulk film roller. They still make them, it’s these big black thing, you get 100 feet of Tri-X in a roll. You put it in this black box that’s light tight, and you get these empty canisters to snap on canisters. So that’s what I did to save money, so I rolled my own and shot hundreds of rolls all across the country.
Yeah. They’re more difficult because there’s more of a demand on me and them, you know, so there’s that. It can be a lot of fun, it can be torturous, rarely, but sometimes.
When somebody is utterly uncooperative, utterly couldn’t care less. I can think of one prick that I worked with – Michael Dukakis was a real asshole. And I was merciless with politicians, anyway. If you look at the contact sheet there’s not one picture that I like, except for the contact sheet itself, and it’s because in every picture he’s the same...
No, I met her as a poet, a poet introduced me to her. Although I was in the same class as Mapplethorpe at Pratt, and I would see him around the school.
It was warm! But it was December. So I run to this place, get the suit, put it on, had my camera, run over to the Plaza. Run in, and first thing that happens is I walk in and Gloria Swanson comes over and says, “I love the suit.” (laughter) I always like to think that I’m in a bubble floating around the room wherever I was – invisible – which was t...
For over four decades working as a staff photographer for five different publications in New York City, James Hamilton captured some of the most remarkable people and events of the last half century. Hamilton’s career began in 1964 as a painter studying at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Nov 11, 2023 · As staff photographer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Observer, Hamilton chronicled the faces of New York culture, from Meryl Streep and...
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For over four decades working as a New York City staff photographer at publications such as Harper's Bazaar, The New York Observer and most notably, The Village Voice, James Hamilton captured some of the most remarkable people and events of the last half century.
