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
together genius taste
Genius and taste don't go together.
thinking guy pages
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
would-be should feels
You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.
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.
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.
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.