Photos David Hamilton Bilitis -

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"Bilitis" is a French erotic coming-of-age drama directed by David Hamilton himself. It is loosely inspired by the 19th-century French poem "The Songs of Bilitis" by Pierre Louÿs, which depicts a young girl's romantic and sexual awakening in ancient Greece. Hamilton updated the story to a contemporary setting. photos david hamilton bilitis

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David Hamilton was primarily known as a fashion photographer and fine-art photographer, famous (and later controversial) for his soft-focus, dreamlike, pastel-toned images of adolescent girls. "Bilitis" was his directorial debut —he directed the film to translate his signature photographic style into motion pictures. Hamilton updated the story to a contemporary setting

The "story" is that David Hamilton used his photographic style to create a feature film, Bilitis , and the accompanying still photos from that film are classic examples of his soft-focus, eroticized depiction of teenage femininity—a style that is now highly controversial.