August 10th, 2022

The exposition of Helmut Newton took place in Monaco Villa Sauber during the summer of 2022.

Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara "Claire" (née Marquis) and Max Neustädter, a button factory owner. His family was Jewish. Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from the age of 12 when he purchased his first camera, he worked for the German photographer Yva (Elsie Neuländer Simon) from 1936.

After the war in 1945, he became a British subject and changed his name to Newton in 1946.

Helmut Newton's 1950 portrait of his wife June, modeling a "Hat of the Week" for Myer's Department Store.

In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage name June Brunell. Later she became a successful photographer under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs (after Alice Springs, the town in Central Australia).

Newton and his wife finally settled in Paris in 1961 and work continued as a fashion photographer. His images appeared in magazines including the French edition of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

He established a particular style marked by erotic, stylized scenes. His "Naked and Dressed" portfolio followed and in 1992 "Domestic Nudes" which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style.

Newton’s years in Monaco were the freest of his career. Fashion has largely contributed to Helmut Newton’s fame. This symbolic passage occurred in 1981 when his Big Nudes were exhibited in the Parisian gallery of Daniel Templon. Two years later, his work was presented at the Musée de l’Art Moderne in Paris.

 

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. On 23 January 2004, he suffered a serious heart attack while driving his automobile down Marmont Lane from the Chateau Marmont to Sunset Boulevard. Doctors were unable to save him, and he was pronounced dead. His ashes are buried at the Städtischer Friedhof III in Berlin. 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."

June Newton died on Friday at the age of 97 in her home in Monte Carlo.

The photography of Newton Riviera is connected with the Surrealism Movement.

Princess Caroline of Monaco enjoying the Photography Exhibition of Helmut Newton Summer 2022.

The exposition of Helmut Newton took place in Monaco’s Villa Sauber during the summer of 2022.

 

Photo credit: Maya Jonhson