Helmut Newton
Kissing Rue Aubriot, c. 1976
Silver Gelatin Print
20 × 16 in, 50.8 × 40.6 cm
Private collection
Rue Aubriot is named after Hugues Aubriot, provost of Paris under Charles V. The latter is known to have taken measures of leniency with regard to the Jews of Paris. For this, he was accused of impiety, imprisoned in the Bastille, then released by mutineers. He is also the builder of the Bastille, on which he laid the first stone on April 22, 1370. It is also has the first sewers of Paris with vaults, docks and bridges. More on Rue Aubriot
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin,
Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early
age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very
first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on
mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German
photographer, Elsle Simon, known as Yva. Her surreal, multiple exposure
photographs that took in fashion, theater and the nude were to inspire
Newton throughout his career.
On
November 9, 1938, Newton, secured passage to China, where he stopped in
Singapore until 1940 before leaving to Australia and finding work as a truck
driver in the Australian Army.
In 1948,
he married actress June Browne, herself a photographer under the name of Alice
Springs, a name she chose from a map of Australia. High-profile contracts with
Australian Vogue in the 1950’s; British Vogue in 1957-1958; French Vogue in
1961 provided Newton with the exposure that would allow him to stamp his style
on fashion photography over the next 40 years.
Known as
the ‘King of Kink’, Newton’s erotically charged imagery was provocative as it
was masterful in its compositional and narrative direction. Creating highly
charged images layered with voyeuristic, sado-masochist undertexts, Newton was
drawn to empowered woman presenting a potent image of female sexuality in the
60’s and 70’s.
Newton died, aged 83, in 2004 following a major car accident in
Los Angeles. More on Helmut
Newton
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