![]() Created by Pauwels with a cast of 13-year-old girls (13 of them) and a male bodybuilder, the piece deliberately plays on the dreamy, secretive self-absorption of teenage girls recognisable from Hamilton’s images. That debate is continued in Lies Pauwels’ show The Hamilton Complex, which opens this week at the Unicorn as part of the London international festival of theatre (Lift). ![]() Although there have been prosecutions for indecency in which Hamilton’s images have figured, his books remain widely available, his defenders insisting that the images merely represent a more innocent age. Years later, questions were raised about whether the photographs constitute art or pornography. ![]() It ended up on coffee tables around the world, and Hamilton’s images graced public buildings, including the US Library of Congress. I n 1971, the British photographer David Hamilton published Dreams of a Young Girl, a book full of soft-focus pictures of naked teenagers, with a text by the French writer and film-maker Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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