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Also known as Helmut Neustädter, Helmut Neustaedter

German-Australian photographer (1920–2004)

Person · Open Library

Born
1920
Died
2004
Works
70

Top works

  • The Artificial of the real
  • Helmut Newton's Work
  • Helmut Newton. Polaroids
  • Helmut Newton
  • Helmut Newton and Alice Springs. Us and Them

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
[Worldwide]
Active from
1920
Active to
2004

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7
Total plays
15

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Quotes

  • Since the commercialization and banality of editorial magazine pages have made this work uninteresting, advertising has become an increasingly important part of my work. It is interesting to compare European and American mores in regard to my work. One will notice that most of my European images have a stronger sexual content that those destined for American publication. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
  • Growing up, I was surrounded by Nazi imagery, like everybody in Germany, and for a boy obsessed with photography it left an indelible impression on me. Later this influence was tempered by Brassaï and Dr. Erich Salomon. My love of photography at night started with m early experience of … the Berlin undergrund stations. Even today I love photographing by the light of street lamps or in the glare of my flash.
  • My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
  • I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Even when I am not in sympathy with the person, I have to be in love with him or her while I'm doing their portrait. Le Pen adored me (at least until his photo ran alongside Hitler's in Le Monde), and we got on extremely well.

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Key facts

Born
Helmut Neustädter , ( 1920-10-31 ) 31 October 1920, Berlin , Germany
Died
23 January 2004 (2004-01-23) (aged 83), Los Angeles , California, US
Occupation
Photographer
Years active
1936−2003
Spouse
June Browne ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 ) ​

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Works in European collections

5 objects attributed to Helmut Newton, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Helmut Newton (né Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helmut Newton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.