Jack Nicholson. Meryl Streep. LL Cool J. Muhammad Ali. Patti Smith. How many other luminaries did James Hamilton frame in his camera lens from the late 1960s through the 2000s? As film director Wes Anderson, the executive producer of the new documentary Uncropped, puts it in the film, “James’s work — it conjures up cinema to me. Essentially living in a darkroom. This is James Stewart in Rear Window. This is the guy.” And indeed, the doc includes a portrait Hamilton took of Alfred Hitchcock, looking less like the director of voyeuristic Technicolor marvels than like an ostentatiously jolly — all the better to lure you in — Santa
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