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 Frank Horvat with Helmut Newton: October 1986 Frank Horvat : I think that if I had to explain Helmut Newton to someone who had never heard of him, the first thing I would say would be : “He is the one who has turned the tables on the whole business”. You said it yourself, something like “making the system work for you.” Helmut Newton : Beating the system. Frank Horvat : I don’t know much about your life, but I re…  Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter (31 October 1920, Berlin, Germany 23 January 2004, West Hollywood, California, USA) was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women. Born Schoneberg, Berlin, to a German-Jewish button-factory owner and an American mother, Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from the age of twelve whe…  By Michael Kaplan, Graphis, Sep/Oct 2002 It is a weekday morning in the staid lobby of midtown Manhattan’s Regency Hotel. Comfy chairs and sofas are occupied by men and women in business attire, reading the Times and Journal, synching– up for impending meetings. Photographer Helmut Newton is older than everyone within eyeshot. However, as he exits the elevator, dressed in a black sweater, baggy but beaten up dress slacks, pink sock…  He is the most famous german photographer of the world – Helmut Newton. The mixture of erotic, luxury and obscenity in his photography is responsible for his fame. His pictures for VOGUE were a revolution in fashion photography. Gero von Boehm was able to produce a very intimate, funny and sumptuous portrait on Newton. Born in Berlin 1920 the son of a german button factory owner bought his first camera at the age of twelve. He was inf… | ||||||||||||||
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