Newton's photography is something special. It combines in her coolness and perfection on the one hand and on the other the pure immediacy of a face or of drooling fat fingers on dollar bills. To be photographed by Newton, is a mutual enrichment. Just as some presidential Lady increased its value by Newton, so certainly Newton through them. Or the young Karl Lagerfeld appears at the aristocratic severity of fin de Siecles.
Newton's nudes are photographed by him in sensual, direct, frivolous positons. Newton's view applies to women. His paintings have a natural shame in itself, they go to the limit at which the imagination can be kindled. His women are eg in "you get" more fashion warriors not victims. This famous: "Touch me not" be seen in the image, as this Marshal Blonsky wrote: ". The look and with desire" This is only possible because he avoids direct border crossings and representations that suffocated all imagination in the bud. His large orders at Vogue show this confidence in yourself, Newton said: ". It did my utmost to push the sexiest fashion photos on them"
Long this wonderful book was sold out. But the Taschen has not let it take, when Jubiläumsausgabe hang with June Newton, the widow of this stunt again. On the occasion of the exhibition in Berlin in 2009, it has already been published. Newton Pictures (completely) and some supplements are currently on view at the Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton Foundation, Jebensstr. 2, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg.
For Newton lovers a round thing. New images like some letters or letters can be seen there, as photographs of his funeral in of 2004.
Helmut Newton (1920 - 2004) was saying with his pictures that the world can do without men, but not women. Yet he obviously thinks that you can not do without him, it's he who transformed the women in art for [...]. Check it in the Newton Bar on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt.
