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‘Uncropped’ Review: An Enticing Portrait of James Hamilton Makes You Wonder: Is He the Greatest New York Photographer Ever?
D.W. Young's film gets you hooked on the legendary Village Voice and Harper's Bazaar photographer, whose work is a miracle of spontaneous classicism.
Any photographer who shoots what’s happening in the gleaming, raw, people-packed carnival of New York City — the stores and walls and towers and alleyways, the celebrities, the endless cross-section of humanity — already has an artistic leg up. Sylvia Plachy, his fellow staff photographer at the Village Voice in the ’70s and ’80s, calls Hamilton a “classicist,” and he fully cops to being obsessed with composition, with lighting that echoes sources as stylized as the film noirs he grew up on. He and Katherine Dobie have a lovely home in the Hamptons, and he brought his active career to a close after he was hit by a car in Brooklyn Heights, causing a leg injury that required four surgeries.
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