Photographer Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton is no longer just a name, Helmut Newton is one of the outstanding photographers of the twentieth century, and he has long since become a recognized classic of photography.

The genres in which Helmut Newton worked are varied: from traditional fashion photography to reflections on the theme of death. Celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Sting, Serge Ginsbourg, David Lee Roth and many others posed for him. There is certainly a certain touch of decadence in his works. He was always interested in the topic of eroticism in photography. He can be attributed to those photographers who are carried away not only by the external side, but also by the internal: meaning, content. He creates an image of a strong and even domineering woman, a woman who is able to choose herself.

Helmut Newton is much more than just a fashion photographer, and fashion photography itself is only part of his work. Nevertheless, since the 1960s of the twentieth century, the works of Helmut Newton appear in such famous glossy magazines as Elle, Vogue, Marie-Claire, Harper's Bazaar, and become part of the fashion world and even change this world, change the very magazine photography. ... And yes, it is Helmut Newton who makes a part of fashion, the glossy world, and makes erotica, and not just erotica, but erotica on the verge of indecent. Critics of Helmut Newton's works have repeatedly noted that: "even when there is nothing frankly indecent in his shots, they still make a very" indecent "impression." More than once, Helmut Newton's photographs have appeared on the pages of Playboy magazine.

“Sex sells” is a textbook phrase by Helmut Newton.

Helmut Newton, the real name of Newstadler, then he will change it to a more sonorous one - Newton (German Helmut Neust? Dter) was born on October 31, 1920 in Berlin. His father is a manufacturer, a German Jew by nationality. Mother is American. As a child, Helmut studied at two schools - German and then American. At the age of 12, he began to take an interest in photography, then they bought him a camera. And already at the age of 16, he becomes a student of the photo artist Yva (Yva) - the real name is Elsa Simon, who, among other things, was famous for her work in the field of erotic photography. Then they worked together for a while.

In December 1938, in connection with the events that are taking place in Germany (the strengthening of Hitler's power, the deterioration of relations with the Jewish population), Helmut Newton decides to leave Germany, by the way, his parents had already lived in Chile by that time. Hellmuth went to Singapore, where he got a job as a photojournalist for a newspaper, but was soon fired for incompetence, after only two weeks of work. He goes to Australia. In Australia, he served in the army (as a truck driver) and received citizenship, and also married actress June Brown. And he opened his own studio in Melbourne. June Brown will also soon take up photography, signing her works as Alice Springs (after the city in Australia). She will also become a highly sought after photographer. Helmut and June lived a long life together, but they never had children. June has repeatedly appeared in her husband's photographs, often nude.

In the 1950s, Helmut Newton returned to Europe. He was offered to work for British Vogue after noticing his photographs in the Australian counterpart. He lives in London, then in Paris and Monte Carlo, it was during this period that Newton began to work for famous glossy magazines... Helmut Newton spent the last years of his life living in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles.

He died in 2004, at the age of 83: out of habit, he gasped straight from the spot and crashed into the wall of a building opposite the parking lot of a hotel in Hollywood from which he was driving - he died in the hospital from his injuries.

Helmut Newton is called a "cold-fiery" photographer, because his works depict "sculptures of women", full of health, but it is the sculptures - cold statues that only slightly "glow with the bluish light of the Arctic ice."