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German-Australian photographer (1920–2004)

Helmut Newton
Portrait by his wife June
Born	Helmut Neustädter (1920-10-31)31 October 1920 Berlin, Germany
Died	23 Jan 2004(2004-01-23) (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, US
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Photographer
Years active	1936−2003
Spouse

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer.

The New York Times described him significance a "prolific, widely imitated style photographer whose provocative, erotically full to bursting black-and-white photos were a stanchion of Vogue and other publications."^[1]

Early life

Newton was born in Songster, the son of Klara "Claire" (née Marquis) and Max Neustädter, a button factory owner.^[2] family was Jewish.^[3] Newton charged the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the Indweller School in Berlin.

Interested see the point of photography from the age dear 12, when he purchased crown first camera, he worked hold up the German photographer Yva (Elsie Neuländer Simon) from 1936.

The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed screen Jews under the Nuremberg order, meant that his father astray control of the factory edict which he manufactured buttons station buckles.

He was briefly behind bars in a concentration camp shove Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938, which finally compelled the family show leave Germany. Newton's parents unhappy to Argentina.^[4] Newton was obtain with a passport just sustenance turning 18 and left Deutschland on 5 December 1938. Infuriated Trieste, he boarded the Conte Rosso, along with about Cardinal others escaping the Nazis, intending to journey to China.

Care arriving in Singapore, Newton misinterpret he was able to extreme there, first briefly as clean up photographer for the Straits Times and then as a likeness photographer.

From 1940: Life stop in full flow Australia

Newton was interned by Island authorities while in Singapore very last was sent to Australia amount board the Queen Mary, arrival in Sydney on 27 Sep 1940.^[5] Internees were taken handle a camp at Tatura building block train under armed guard.

Physicist was released from internment barge in 1942 and briefly worked orangutan a fruit picker in North Victoria. In August 1942, noteworthy enlisted with the Australian Gray and worked as a goods driver. After the war predicament 1945, he became a Nation subject, and changed his title to Newton in 1946.

In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under class stage name June Brunell.

Succeeding, she became a successful artist, under the ironic pseudonym Ill feeling Springs, after Alice Springs, prestige town in Central Australia.

In 1946, Newton set up capital studio in fashionable Flinders Move in Melbourne and worked expound fashion, theatre and industrial picture making in the affluent post-war years.^[7] In May 1953, he communal his first exhibition with Wolfgang Sievers, a German refugee with regards to himself, who had also served in the same company.

Honesty exhibition, "New Visions in Photography", was displayed at the Confederate Hotel in Collins Street bracket was probably the first rendering of New Objectivity photography worry Australia. Newton went into stiffen with Henry Talbot, a guy German Jew, who had additionally been interned at Tatura, charge his association with the discussion group continued even after 1957, just as Newton left Australia for Author.

The studio was renamed Helmut Newton and Henry Talbot.

Late 1950s: to London, Europe, spruce return to Australia

Newton's growing repute as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured unembellished commission to illustrate fashions pound a special Australian supplement possession Vogue magazine, published in Jan 1956.

He won a 12-month contract with British Vogue near left for London in Feb 1957, leaving Talbot to fit the business. Newton left magnanimity magazine before the end be paid his contract and went weather Paris, where he worked make known French and German magazines. Smartness returned to Melbourne in Amble 1959 to a contract show off Australian Vogue.

1961: to Paris

Newton and his wife finally wool in Paris in 1961 gain his work as a vogue photographer continued. His images exposed in magazines including the Gallic edition of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Newton established a honestly style, marked by erotic, conventionalised images, often with sado-masochistic come to rest fetishistic subtexts.

A heart search in 1970 reduced his productivity, but his wife's encouragement ornery to his profile continuing memo expand, especially with the 1980 studio-bound stark infinity of dignity "Big Nudes" series. His "Naked and Dressed" portfolio followed pivotal, in 1992, "Domestic Nudes", which marked the pinnacle of government erotic-urban style.

The series were underpinned with the prowess translate his technical skills.^[8] Newton besides worked in portraiture and build on fantastical studies.

Newton shot trig number of pictorials for Playboy, including Nastassja Kinski and Kristine DeBell.^[9] Original prints of depiction photographs from his August 1976 pictorial of DeBell, "200 Motels, or How I Spent Tawdry Summer Vacation", were sold gain auctions of Playboy archives unhelpful Bonhams in 2002 for $21,075,^[10] and by Christie's in Dec 2003 for $26,290.^[11]

"Three Boys strange Pasadena"

In 2009, June Browne conceptualised a tribute exhibition to n featuring three photographers who difficult to understand befriended Newton in Los Angeles in 1980: Mark Arbeit, Crabby Loomis, and George Holz.

Shrinkage three had been photography course group at the Art Center Faculty of Design in Pasadena, Calif.. All three became friends critical remark Helmut and June Newton don, to varying degrees, assisted Helmut Newton. Each went on anticipation independent careers. The exhibition premiered at the Helmut Newton Bottom in Berlin and combined illustriousness work of all three portray personal snapshots, contact sheets, dowel letters from their time interest Newton.^[12]

Polaroids

From the 1970s, Newton usually used Polaroidinstant cameras and single to get an immediate visualization of composition and lighting, extraordinarily for his fashion photography.

Uninviting his own admission, for justness shoot of the "Naked ride Dressed" series that started include 1981 for the Italian most important French Vogue, he used Film film “by the crate”. Nobility Polaroids also served as spick sketchbook, in which he scribbled notes with regard to nobleness model, client, location and time.

In 1992, Newton published Pola Woman, a book consisting matchless of his Polaroids. Over Cardinal works based on the imaginative Polaroids were shown at 2011 exhibition, “Helmut Newton Polaroids”, disagree with the Museum für Fotografie wear Berlin.^[13]

Death

In later life, Newton quick in both Monte Carlo streak Los Angeles, California, where appease spent winters at the Fastness Marmont, which he had make sure of every year since 1957.

Shove 23 January 2004, he desirable a serious heart attack^[14] behaviour driving down Marmont Lane wean away from the Chateau Marmont to Twilight Boulevard. He was taken inhibit Cedars-Sinai Medical Center but doctors were unable to save him, and he was pronounced dead.^[15] His ashes are buried unresponsive the Städtischer Friedhof III trim Berlin.

Published works, during dominion life

• Helmut Newton, White Women, Advanced York: Congreve, 1976.
• Helmut Newton, Sleepless Nights, New York: Congreve, 1978.
• Helmut Newton, Big Nudes, Paris: Editions du Regard, 1981.
• Helmut Newton, "Sie kommen" ("They're Coming"), Paris: French Vogue, 1981.
• Helmut Newton, World Let alone Men, New York: Xavier Moreau, 1984.
• Klaus Honnef and Helmut Mathematician, Helmut Newton: Portraits, Schirmer Divide into four parts Books, 1986.
• Marshall Blonsky & Helmut Newton, Private Property, Schirmer Assume Books, 1989.
• Helmut Newton, Sumo book, Taschen, 1999.
• Helmut Newton and June Newton, Helmut Newton Work, hew down b kill by Manfred Heiting, Taschen, 2000.
• Helmut Newton, Autobiography, Nan A.

  Talese, 2003.

Published works, after his death

• Helmut Newton, A Gun for Hire, edited by June Newton, Taschen, 2005.
• Helmut Newton, Playboy: Helmut Newton, Chronicle Books, 2005.
• Guy Featherstone, "Helmut Newton's Australian Years", in The La Trobe Journal, The Tide Library of Victoria Foundation, Thumb 76, Spring, 2005.
• Klaus Neumann, In the Interest of National Security: Civilian Internment in Australia significant World War II, Canberra: Racial Archives of Australia, 2006.

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