Back in the states, Masha expected a nice American home with a bedroom all her own. No phone calls were made to his ex-wife or to his biological daughter. What she didn't know was the adoption agency failed to properly check her new father's background. But nothing could have been farther from the truth. Mancuso seemed like her knight in shining armor.
He visited Masha several times at the orphanage, took her to nice dinners, and bought her candy. After months of waiting, Mancuso traveled to Russia to meet his new daughter. He contacted a New Jersey adoption agency requesting information on 5-year-old Caucasian girls, and chose Masha from a videotape. Meanwhile, 41-year-old Matthew Mancuso, a divorced father in Pennsylvania, was looking for a little girl to adopt. Soon after recovering from her traumatic ordeal, Masha was sent to an orphanage where she prayed that a good family would come to rescue her. Her own mother tried to kill her when she was only 4 years old by stabbing her in the back of the neck with a kitchen knife. She was born in southern Russia to an alcoholic mother and a father she never knew. Hamilton’s photographs have long been at the forefront of the “is it art or pornography?” debate.At 13 years old, Masha has already survived the unthinkable. His further success included many dozens of photographic books with combined sales well into the millions, five feature films, countless magazine publishings and scores of museum and gallery exhibitions.Īs much of Hamilton’s work depicts early-teen girls, often nude, he has been the subject of some controversy and even child pornography allegations. By the end of the 1960s, Hamilton’s work had a recognizable style. His photographs were in demand by other magazines such as Realites, Twen and Photo. Hamilton began photographing commercially while still employed, and the dreamy, grainy style of his images quickly brought him success. Hamilton soon returned to Paris and there became the art director of Printemps, the city’s largest department store. After becoming known and successful, he was hired away from ELLE by Queen magazine in London as art director. At age 20, he moved to Paris, where he worked as graphic designer for Peter Knapp of ELLE magazine. His artistic skills began to emerge during a job at an architect’s office. After the war, Hamilton returned to London and finished school before moving to France where he has lived ever since.
As an evacuee, he spent some time in the countryside of Dorset, which inspired his work. His schooling was interrupted by World War II. David Hamilton (1933–2016) was a British photographer, who grew up in London.
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