- Hardcover: 202 pages
- Publisher: Aurum Press; First Edition edition (October 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1854104314
- ISBN-13: 978-1854104311
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 25.4 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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#607,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Hamilton, David
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"Everyone," says the author, "cherishes a dream that they will one day find their own place in the sun where they will be free to live life as an idyll." This book is Hamilton's photographic record of one sugh place--Tahiti and the beautiful young women and other visitors who shared his experience in turning fantasy into reality. 200 color photos.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An amazing journey through Heaven on Earth.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Place in the Sun (Hardcover)
This book is absolutely brimming with gorgeous pictures. I bought it the minute I finished looking at it for the first time four years ago. All photographs are tastefully done and convey a sense of wonder at what God has put here on this earth for us all to enjoy. You absolutely have to have this book!!!! It is stunning!!!!!
1.0 out of 5 stars
How to make a boring picture,
By A Customer
This review is from: Place in the Sun (Hardcover)
Pretty amazing -- David Hamilton takes some pictures of some very attractive subjects, in extremely attractive backgrounds, with extremely expensive equipment, and manages to make them look worse than the worst of my holiday photos. Boring, self-conscious... basically, not worth a look. If you like the subject matter, I highly recommend Jock Sturges (for some very laid-back, pretty pictures) or Sally Mann (for some slightly more disturbing overtones.) But skip Hamilton, he's a waste of paper
2.0 out of 5 stars
Rehash of trite commercial images,
By A Customer
This review is from: Place in the Sun (Hardcover)
This collection of Hamilton's work contains bland landscape photography that would fit the formulas of the Sierra Club desk calender; bland images of young girls in the same poses we've seen dozens of times in his other work, saying nothing new and with all the personality of a jeans ad; and self-conscious photos of some Beautiful People that look like they were intended for ads in a fashion magazine. Of course, none of this should be surprising considering that most of Hamilton's work is blatantly commercial and self-indulgent, but some of his earlier books -- Sisters, Private Collection, and so on -- contained genuinely unique, well-composed, and evocative pictures. (Age of Innocence was as boring to me as this book.) The only images that worked for me in Place in the Sun were the photos of flowers, which are very pretty. Seeing one photo of a "native" couple titled "The Noble Savage," and another of a young woman holding handfuls of fruit at crotch level titled "The Fruits of Love" (or something similar) gave me a laugh. For some reason, Hamilton has never gotten over his addiction to silly quotes and captions that cheapen his images. I would certainly prefer that he let them speak for themselves, but then the viewer might have a chance to experience his own response to them, rather than being directed by Hamilton to Hamilton's own narcissistic fantasy.
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