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
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.
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.
photography hard-work thinking
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
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.
firsts shots worst
The first 10 000 shots are the worst.
hate dirty years
I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word.
portraits scandalous
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
wings people lasts
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.