Throughout the heady years of New York's 1960s and 70s music
scenes, James Hamilton was on hand to observe and photograph some
of the most significant bands, musicians and performances of the
twentieth century. Serving as staff photographer for the "Village
Voice" and "Crawdaddy ," Hamilton photographed such musicians as
James Brown, Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Grateful
Dead, John Fahey, Mick Jagger, Jethro Tull, Elvin Jones, the Kinks,
Madonna, Charlie Mingus, Joni Mitchell, the Ramones, Gil
Scott-Heron, Patti Smith, Sun Ra, Tom Verlaine and Stevie Wonder.
In "You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen," Hamilton opens up his
archives for the first time, revealing across 300 pages a trove of
previously unpublished black-and-white photographs--portraits,
snapshots, sketches, contact sheets--of some of the most
recognizable faces in music. Influential for several generations of
budding photographers raised on his photographs, the work of James
Hamilton is at last collected in this revelatory volume.
As a young man in the late 1960s, James Hamilton met the legendary
photographers Diane Arbus and Eugene Smith, and was inspired by
them to document the changing skyline of New York City. As staff
photographer for "Harper's Bazaar" and the "Village Voice,"
Hamilton recorded the fashion shows, events, protests and riots,
happenings, concerts, poetry readings and art openings of that era,
and throughout the 1970s, his photographs of musicians and
celebrities began to appear in the pages of "Crawdaddy "magazine.
Later Hamilton joined "The New York Observer" and began working
with filmmakers George Romero, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson,
Bill Paxton and Noah Baumbach as on-set photographer.
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