Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newtonwas a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth31 October 1920
CountryGermany
beautiful stars three
I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.
photography work-out assistants
Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
notebook writing thinking
I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
california house backyards
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
together genius taste
Genius and taste don't go together.
wings people lasts
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.
portraits scandalous
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
firsts shots worst
The first 10 000 shots are the worst.
photography hard-work thinking
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
would-be should feels
You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.
copy mixed money people sorts
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
nice series shoot women
The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl.
allowed dogs gave limit loose people per streets
People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
auction became book charity copy expensive last single year
Well, a copy was auctioned last year at a charity auction in Berlin, and it became the most expensive single book of the 20th Century.