Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, 2001
Christie's, New York, Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection, 16 - 17 December 2008, lot 217
Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 16 May - 31 August 2003, this lot
Vogue Paris, November 1976, p. 131
H. Newton, White Women, New York: Stonehill, 1976, p. 15
Helmut Newton: Mode et Portraits, Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1984, pl. 22
H. Newton, Portraits, New York: Pantheon Books, 1987, pl. 25
Helmut Newton: Portraits, London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988, pl. 17
Helmut Newton: Aus dem Photographischen Werk, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1993, pl. 40
Helmut Newton for Press Freedom, Reporters Without Borders, Paris: Reporters sans Frontieres, 2003, cover and p. 41
German • 1920 - 2004
Helmut Newton's distinct style of eroticism and highly produced images was deemed rebellious and revolutionary in its time, as he turned the expected notion of beauty, depicted by passive and submissive women, on its head. Depicting his models as strong and powerful women, Newton reversed gender stereotypes and examined society's understanding of female desire.
Newton created a working space for his models that was part decadent and part unorthodox — a safe microcosm in which fantasies became reality. And perhaps most famously of all, Newton engendered an environment in which his female models claimed the space around them with unapologetic poise and commanding sensuality. His almost cinematic compositions provided a hyper-real backdrop for the provocative images of sculptural, larger-than-life women, and enhanced the themes of voyeurism and fetishism that run throughout his work.
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