Sisters

by David Hamilton Text by Alain Robbe-Grillet Since the publication of Dreams of a Young Girl in 1971 (25,000 copies in print), David Hamilton's popularity in the United States has been soaring, and his new celebration of feminine youth and physical beauty will unquestionably produce another surge of interest in the work of this young genius. The Sisters, beautiful young girls fresh from the Scandinavian snows of their birth (or perhaps from Botticelli's "Primavera" or the palette of Renoir) , are alone, happy, delighted with some new secret, excited by an intimate complicity, and David Hamilton has caught the grace of their young bodies in dream houses and landscapes worthy of the Impressionists. Each image demonstrates his unique photographic technique, which has earned him a reputation as the master of erotic romanticism. Alain Robbe-Grillet enhances the enchantment of David Hamilton's photographs with his tender, poetic, and subtly ironic text. Sisters is an Alternate Selection of Playboy Book Club, and a portfolio of photographs from the book will appear in the magazine Oui.