Holiday Snapshots is a photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

 collection of b&w and color images by British photographer David Hamilton

David Hamilton (photographer)

David Hamilton is a British photographer and occasional film director most known for his images of young women.-Early life and career:...

, continuing his interest in adolescent girls, nudity

Nudity

Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic. The amount of clothing worn depends on functional considerations and social considerations...

 and erotica

Erotica

Erotica are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions...

. The book contains many images previously unpublished from sessions dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, not only Hamilton's formal portraits, but also candid images of his models indoors and poolside, diving, leaping, stretching, horsing around or sunbathing. Thus there is a much greater variety of poses here than in previous books.

Holiday Snapshots received a limited distribution because it was privately printed and intended to be sold primarily via Hamilton's website, Hamilton-Archives.com. Although Amazon.com lists two ISBN numbers for the book, there is no number to be found on the book itself and no bar code.

Although this title was placed on the list of "banned" books in New Zealand, so were Twenty-Five Years of an Artist and Private Collection. Dreams of a Young Girl (William Morrow) and Age of Innocence (Aurum Press), on the other hand, remain "unrestricted", along with Graham Ovenden's States of Grace. Such classifications tend to reveal not the controversial nature of the content of these books, but the contentiousness of the censors. Needless to say, all of Hamilton's titles, including this one, when available, sell openly in other countries, including the United States.

Dimensions: 10.5 x 9.8 x 1 inches (same size as Age of Innocence)

Binding: Softcover, 216 pp.

Printing: Imprimerie Fournie - Toulouse. Printed in France

Copyright 1999 by Liliane James for the introduction and the captions

Calligraphy of the title and captions by Gertrude Hamilton

Designed by Gertrude & David Hamilton

Produced by Films Books & Music Sarl

This book was made possible with the support of Alain Darras - Photogravure du Pays D'Oc - and Pierre Fournie - L'Imprimerie Fournie.