Violet Hamilton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Violet Hamilton

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Singapore

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: photographer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Violet Hamilton (née Diane Oakley, February 1949 – July 2014) was a photographer who lived and worked in Australia, the US and the UK. Her photographic career, which spanned some 45 years (1970–2014), covered artistic, commercial and curatorial work. Violet was one of the students in the first Photography course at Sydney's National Art School (then East Sydney Technical College).
From 1973 onwards, Violet worked as a freelance photographer, documenting the contemporary culture of a rapidly changing world – Sydney's Darlinghurst - which incubated the emerging gay, lesbian, transsexual and feminist cultures. Post-graduate studies in Los Angeles culminated in a curatorial role with the Wilson Centre for Photography - one of the largest private collections of photographs in the world, spanning the early nineteenth century to contemporary artists.