![]() ![]() Newton was highly sought after until the end of his life. ![]() Over the next twenty-five years he worked steadily and productively, publishing a series of books and creating countless exhibitions, the most impressive of which was surely the large-scale celebration of his career at the Neue National Galerie in Berlin on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2000, accompanied by the simply titled book, Work. The following year he published his first book, White Women. In 1975 Paris, Newton staged his first one-man exhibition. Portraits of celebrities became an evermore important aspect of Newton’s work, and published widely. He conceived witty, erotic picture stories for the American magazines Oui and Playboy. Newton turned his attention to making powerful, confrontational nudes. ![]() Newton challenged conventions, and created a provocative, hybrid photography that embraced fashion, erotica, portrait, and documentary elements, producing a highly stylized interpretation of elegant and decadent ways of life. Over the years, Newton’s work centered primarily on fashion, nudes, and portraits, with the three categories often mixing. His black-and-white photographs combine the feel of 1930s noir photojournalism with aspects of New Wave films, reflecting his directorial mastery. His dramas stopped short of pornography, and most took place in European jet-set retreats. Helmut’s photographs featured vignettes he staged, often of fraught moments heavy with overtones of voyeurism, fetishism, lesbianism, and sado-masochism, his women outraged some feminist viewers and satisfied others. ![]() The cool statuesque, and sexually practiced women in Newton’s fashion and personal photographs were his most controversial creation. Throughout the years, Newton contributed to magazines such as Playboy, Queen, Nova, Marie-Claire, Elle and the American, Italian, and German editions of Vogue.Īfter a nearly fatal heart attack in 1971, and with the encouragement of his wife, he began to photograph overtly sexual images. It was a magazine that he stamped with his trademark images for a quarter century. He worked for various Vogues from the 50s on. During this time, he changed his name to Newton, and opened a small photo studio in Melbourne. Brunell remained his partner for more than 55 years until his death. In 1948, Newton married actress June Brunell, a fellow photographer who later would photograph Newton and work with him on his books. Newton later joined the Australian army, serving five years. Newton stopped in Singapore where he stayed until 1940 he then moved to Australia. In 1938, Newton’s parents secured him a passage on a ship to China, fleeing Hitler’s vicious campaign against German Jews. Celebrated for her elegant fashion, theatre and nude photographs, Yva inspired Newton throughout his career. His early studies were at the American School in Berlin however by 1936, as his fascination with photography began and his disinterest in school waned, he left school and started an apprenticeship with then renowned photographer Elsie Simon, known as Yva. Helmut Newton was born Helmut Neustaedter, in Berlin, Germany in 1920. I bought a Hassy to emulate him! I eventually went to Nikon and Rollei 6008, but he had a lot of influence on me before I found my own voice. I’ll tell you how much I loved him when I was younger. (Paubel Makina, Olympus Stylus, Rollei TLR, etc.) Since most of his work was natural light photography, (yes, he used strobes and umbrellas in the studio), his work has a certain stylized timbre to it. Helmut is mostly known for using his little Hasselblad 500, but in fact, like most photographers, he used many different cameras. (I’ve had it awhile) It was quite enlightening, and Helmut was quite candid about his successes and failures. I have, and have watched, the movie ” Frames from the Edge: Helmut Newton”, which in my case is on VHS tape. The top photographer people are interested in is Helmut Newton, sometimes referred to as the “King of Kink”,….and for good reason. Helmut Newton – The Original Icon of Edgy? ![]()
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