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
art wife lucky
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
art two vocabulary
In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
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 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.
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
photography art moving
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
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.
amount certain looks pictures takes
Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.
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.
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.
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.
fit girl looked particular photo saw whip
In a particular photo one girl has a whip clenched between her teeth. She looked great. But I think Mr. Hermes had a fit when he saw the photos.
girl years lasts
I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.