In 1995, Hamilton said that people "have made contradiction of nudity and purity, sensuality and innocence, grace and spontaneity. In his book, Contemporary Photographers, curator Christian Caujolle wrote that Hamilton worked only with two fixed devices: "a clear pictorial intention and a latent eroticism, ostensibly romantic, but asking for trouble".
Hamilton has said that his work looks for "the candor of a lost paradise". At that time art critic Gene Thornton wrote in The New York Times that they reveal "the kind of ideal that regularly was expressed in the great paintings of the past". His work was exhibited in every one of the first three years of The Photographers' Gallery, London, but were roundly condemned by Euan Duff for its "cliched pictorial symbolism, exploiting soft focus, pastel colours, country landscapes and old houses, old fashioned clothes and even white doves to give a phoney impression of heaIth-food ad naturalness they are a sort of wholemeal stoneground pornography," exhibited "because the gallery needs the money." In December 1977, Images Gallery-a studio owned by Bob Persky at 11 East 57th Street in Manhattan-showed his photographs at the same time that Bilitis was released. His further successes included dozens of photographic books with combined sales well into the millions five feature films countless magazine displays and museum and gallery exhibitions. By the end of the 1960s, all of Hamilton's photographs appeared to have been snapped as if through a hazy mist. His photographs were in demand by other magazines such as Réalités, Twen and Photo. While Hamilton was still employed at Printemps, he began doing commercial photography, and the dreamy, grainy style of his images quickly brought him success. Hamilton soon realised his love for Paris, however, and after returning there became the art director of Printemps, the city's largest department store. After becoming known and successful, he was hired away from Elle by Queen magazine in London as art director. At age 20, he went to Paris, where he worked as graphic designer for Peter Knapp of Elle magazine. His artistic skills began to emerge during a job at an architect's office.
After the war, Hamilton returned to London and finished his schooling. As an evacuee, he spent some time in the countryside of Dorset, which inspired some of his work. His schooling was interrupted by World War II. Hamilton was born in 1933 and grew up in London.
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