Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Baron de Meyer, Edward Steichen, William Klein, Weegee, August Sander, George Hurrell and Jacques Henri Lartigue. Working with Models Even if it is not likely that the photographer had a theological intent, certainly the nudity/clothing apparatus seems to be evoked here and, perhaps unintentionally, called into question. All the more so when, republishing the same diptych two years later in Big Nudes, God’s Glory

The world of fashion photography was changing, and Helmut Newton would lead the change for the next two decades. Mature Period In his career, Newton worked with Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, Nova and Playboy, shooting over 60 covers for Vogue Paris alone.

Timeless photographs expose their audience

The exhibition presents over 200 images by Helmut Newton, one of the most important and famous photographers of the twentieth century. It collects together images from "White Women", "Sleepless Nights", and "Big Nudes", the first three books by Newton published at the end of the 1970s, books that are today considered legendary and which were the only ones to be edited by Newton himself. When selecting the photos, Newton interspersed a sequence, one next to another, of shots that had been commissioned with those he had made for himself, thus constructing a narrative which was a search for style, for the discovery of elegant gestures underpinned by the existence of a further reality, of something that it is up to the viewer to interpret. Newton often contrasted intimate evening outfits against the harsh light of day, as demonstrated here with "Elsa Peretti as a Bunny," where the philanthropist and jewellery designer wears a Halston bunny costume on a roof terrace in New York, 1975. Helmut Newton Helmut Newton / Alice Springs. Us And Them / Helmut Newton. Sex And Landscapes, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin During this time, Helmut photographed society parties in the British colony of Singapore. As he still had a German passport, he was interned by the British in 1940 as a ‘friendly enemy alien’ and sent to Australia on board the Queen Mary. Down Under

Newton was not only courting controversy with his depictions of the dynamics of sex and gender. On a more abstract level his photographs are timeless precisely because they force the viewer to grapple with the themes. As such, the concrete evaluations of Newton's work perhaps say more about the audience than the artist himself. Superstar of the photography world Newton was born in Berlin in a Jewish family. He showed interest in photography at the age of 12 and four years later began working as an apprentice of German photographer Elsie Simon. Due to the growing oppression of Jews in Germany, his family had to leave the country in 1938. Newton moved to Singapore, where he found employment as a photographer for the Straits Times. Singapore was a colony of Britain, and British authorities sent all German refugees, considered to be Nazi spies, to Australian camps. This way, Newton settled down in Australia. Gian Paolo Barbieri is also a photographer who was very important for me. We did a lot of photoshoots for Italian Vogue together. Also, in 2003, a few months before his death, Newton along with his wife June established the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin.Helmut Newton. White Women / Sleepless Nights / Big Nudes, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles During the 1980s, Newton completed his now internationally renowned ‘Naked & Dressed’series, which he later described as the most technically difficult series of pictures he ever produced. I just arrived in Paris in 1981 when my agency sent me to a casting for French Vogue with Helmut Newton. My Agency was Marilyn Gauthier Management and my booker Ulla Caramella. I wasn’t the model who had the look which was in fashion at the beginning of the eighties. Everybody thought I was too sophisticated. At that time they preferred natural, sporty, no makeup models from Sweden or the US. So when Helmut Newton was searching for a new face, Ulla, my booker, said, “That’s for you! You’re a Helmut Newton model.” And she was right. The meeting was not a success – she took offense to a light-hearted comment by Newton – and the portrait was never taken. The Young Rebel Born on October 31, 1920 in Berlin, Helmut Newtonwas one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Fromrefugee to superstar, he was renowned as theportraitist of different German chancellors,and, more controversially, ofnude models.

Brassai inspired me with his pictures of Paris by night. I thought those pictures were incredibly beautiful. I started doing a lot of fashion pictures at night in Paris, and since I’ve been in Monte Carlo I’ve been doing the same here. Night gives a very mysterious quality to a woman in the street. I love that. Other Photographers Work He Liked His first book, released with the title 'White Women', appeared surprisingly late in life, in 1976, when Newton was already 56. By the mid-1970s Newton had already laid the groundwork for his startling idea of presenting contemporary fashion with clothed and undressed models in the form of diptychs, in a style that culminated somewhat later in his famous series 'Big Nudes' and 'Naked and Dressed'. I think things are complicated enough without making them more so, I think this is why my technical equipment is very simple, very basicbecause it gives me more time to work with the girl which is the most important thing.

Newton's photography career takes off

One thing can be said for Helmut, was that he enjoyed a succés de scandale, whether photographing a German model as a Russian spy by the Berlin War, or fashion models posed wearing a saddle or representing women as men. until 1938: apprenticeship with the portrait, nude and fashion photographer Yva (Else Simon, neé Neuländer) in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Images from Newton’s first three books – White Women, Sleepless Nights and Big Nudes – will be on view June 29 through September 8, 2013. The exhibition was originally organized by Manfred Heiting for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. large retrospective for his 80th birthday in the New National Gallery (Neue Nationalgalerie) in Berlin that travels to London, New York, Tokyo, Moscow and Prague, among others. My years in Australia were wonderful. I met June, we married, but photographically, as much as I loved this country and its people, it did not form me as a photographer nor did my work there amount to anything.