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Helmut Newton is a photographer who is best known for his work in fashion and with famous models. His work was often featured in the fashion magazine Vogue, but he was also known for his provocative nude photographs. As his career progressed, his focus shifted from fashion to making a statement through his photographs by using dramatic lighting and unconventional poses. On 1stDibs, find a variety of original artwork from top artists.
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HELMUT NEWTON 'PERE LACHAISE TOMB OF TALMA 1977' HAND SIGNED
By Helmut Newton
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Helmut Newton 'Pere Lachaise Tomb of Talma 1977', Hand Signed
Original Hand Signed (pencil) by Helmut Newton lower right corner
Photo from the special collection series, almost 50 ye...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Lithograph, Photogravure
Prunella and Sylvie
By Helmut Newton
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, known for his unflinching, heavily eroticized images of women.
Born in 1920 in Berlin, Newton’...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Cyberwoman 5
By Helmut Newton
Located in Norwich, GB
Breaking taboos and documenting and shaping society’s changing attitudes to sex and female empowerment have assured Helmut Newton’s position as one of the world’s most celebrated and distinguished photographers. He had fearless ability to celebrate humanity through controversial and innovative portraiture. Indeed author JG Ballard has argued that Newton was in fact nothing less than ‘the world’s greatest visual artist’.
Newton's technical accomplishment is steadfast, with classically meticulous use of light: bold, clean and crisp, highlighting flawless skin that illuminates the frame. Shooting breathtaking photographs portraying generations of fashion, film and musical icons over 70 years, his work was the staple of Vogue, Harpers Bazar and Playboy. His images are instantly recognisable as much for his style as for the countenance of the sitter.
Owning a distinct ability to compose the figure within a landscape, Newton's work invites you to examine the structure of the human form itself, its flesh, its bones, its joints, and question how it moves. ‘There’s a definite contrast’, Helmut Newton says, ‘between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. I get inspired, in America, by a certain kind of sleaziness.’
Newton's 'Cyberwomen' ride the boarder between empowerment and exploitation with unabashed sexuality; the thick, sticky scent of sensuality drips casually from the lines and curves of every subject. Yet his nudes lift the female body far from simple life studies or artist's muse, to hold an altogether more potent self presence. Brimming with rebellious attitude through scowling faces, dangerous situations or awkward stances, they are moody, dramatic and powerful. Commissioned exclusively by Eyestorm in 2000, the models in the series are all posed in everyday locations around Los Angeles.
Born in Germany in 1920 to German and American parents, Newton fled to Singapore to escape the Jewish oppression in 1938 where he worked as a photographer before being interned by the British government to Australia. During World War II, Newton became a truck driver for the Australian army...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Bergstrom, Paris
By Helmut Newton
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph, signed in pencil by Newton. Acquired from a private collection, Paris, France.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Salvador Dali
By Helmut Newton
Located in New York, NY
Silver Gelatin Print
Signed & Numbered in blue pencil verso
Along with copy right stamps and the negative number written in regular pencil
Sheet size: 15.8 x 12
Image size: 14.63 x...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Checkpoint, Evelyn Rothschild, London
By Helmut Newton
Located in New York, NY
Silver Gelatin Print Signed in blue pencil verso: Helmut Newton and numbered Along with copy right stamps and negative number signed in pencil Sheet size: 15.8" x 12"
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper