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
hate color way
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
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.
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 art gun
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.
photography discipline challenges
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
photography fashion interesting
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
trying looks working-it
...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
luxury
My women are always victorious.
photography art dirty
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
white special doe
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.
photography art ideas
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
photography art dirty
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
thinking availability giving
There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.
photography intellectual looks
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.