![]() He also wanted to see how $3 million worth of diamonds looked under X-ray - the diamonds, he discovered, disappeared completely, leaving only the metal settings.ĭuring the 1980s, Newton completed his now internationally renowned ‘Naked & Dressed’ series, which he later described as the most technically difficult series of pictures he ever produced. ‘This was a fashion picture that, in the undressed version, becomes a quintessentially Newton picture,’ says Quinn.įor the ‘X-ray’ series for Van Cleef & Arpels, Newton led a string of models to a radiologist to see ‘what was going on under all the flesh’. ‘In doing so, he earned himself a reputation as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century.’Īmong Newton’s roster of iconic images for French Vogue is the 1975 campaign for Yves Saint Laurent’s tuxedo nicknamed ‘Le Smoking’, which depicts an androgynous woman with slicked-back hair in a dimly lit Parisian alley. With his controversial scenarios, hyper-sexualised imagery and models who combined beauty, eroticism and strength, ‘Newton subverted the traditional conventions of fashion photography’, explains Christie’s specialist Jude Quinn. It was during his 25-year collaboration with Paris Vogue that Newton firmly established his international reputation and defined his signature style: highly stylised and erotically charged black-and-white photographs that embraced elements of glamour, fashion, erotica, portraiture and documentary, while flirting with provocative themes such as voyeurism. Newton ‘subverted the traditional conventions of fashion photography’ From Australia, the couple moved to London for a short period, before in 1961 settling in the fashionable Marais district of Paris. In Australia, Newton served five years with the Australian army and met his wife June Brunell, also a photographer, who later took up the name Alice Springs. There he worked briefly for The Straits Times, before leaving for Melbourne in 1940. In 1938, with Jews facing increasing hostility in Germany, Newton’s parents moved to South America, while Helmut set sail for China, disembarking en route in Singapore. He arrived at Paris Vogue via Singapore, Australia and London Viewers can see how daringly he dialogued with the androgyny in this classic photo back in the 1970s.2. Helmut Newton's iconic work "Rue Aubriot" with Yves Saint Laurent is also displayed in the exhibition. Gorman's photography displays another bodily realism, allowing the mass to rethink and appreciate how the notable Helmut Newton and Greg Gorman explore the two sexes via the camera with differing avant-garde approaches. In "June's Room", which is at the other side of the venue, the exhibition also displays male nude photographs done by the American portrait photographer Greg Gorman from 1988 to 2012. Most of the works are in black and white, including nude photography with voluptuous females, portraits of the famous, and his fashion shoots for Vogue. ![]() More than 200 photographs by Helmut Newton are reappearing at the Museum für Fotografie (Museum of Photography) in Berlin, and it also features some of his photographs that have never been exhibited before. The "Helmut Newton: Paris Berlin / Greg Gorman: Men" exhibition runs from November 2013 to 18th May 2014. ![]() To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Helmut Newton Foundation returns the 2012 Paris exhibition to Helmut Newton's homeland Germany, so that the public can now revisit the master's captivating photography. The exhibition was the top event of the year. In 2012, his works were exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris. ![]() People still put him on a pedestal, and he stays as influential as ever even 10 years after his death. Just as how this venerated photographer said - "My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain" - his life story and works are still being widely circulated. He continuously challenged the concept that people used to have in fashion, culture and aesthetics until he died in a car crash on 23th June 2004, with his legendary life came to a screeching halt. His photography, leaving us in awe and enchantment, was the pleasure and expertise he had been pursuing. Helmut Newton is no stranger to the public with his talent. Helmut Newton replied this with "Beating the system". ![]()
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