Famous photographers and glamorous lives... (Helmut Newton's image of Monica Bellucci, above, might just be the sexiest photo of a bride I have ever seen!...Incredible)
Helmut Newton led the ultimate glamorous life. He lived in the Chateau Marmont in the winter months, to keep the cold and gloom at bay, befriending Billy Wilder, Dennis Hopper and Robert Evans. He was married to fellow photographer Alice Springs, quirkily named after a pin was placed in a map.
Newton arrived in Paris in a white Porsche, was hired immediately by French Vogue, commissioned by Playboy, had a heart attack at 50, and lived in Monte Carlo. Then in a final fling - or what Karl Lagerfeld poetically described as "his last picture, taken by himself", he crashed his Cadillac on Sunset Boulevard aged 83, on January 23 2004.
• After taking a model onto the streets during an early assignment at British Vogue, he was sternly told by the editor that "ladies, Helmut, do not lean against lampposts"
• All Newton's exhibitions were curated by his devoted wife; all books edited by her, including: White Women (1976), Sleepless Nights (1978), Big Nudes (1978), World Without Men (1984) and the massive Sumo (1999), which came out at 31 inches, 26 kilos, £625, and with its own coffee table (Brad Pitt bought several copies)
• Celebrating 51 years of marriage in 1999, their joint exhibition and book, Us And Them, included Alice's photo of Newton wearing nothing but black stockings and his strangely tender portrait of her lying on a hospital bed, following a major operation, wearing a catheter and a huge metal zip running up her stomach.
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Jo Craven
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I decided to create a number of pages about famous photographers that I like... (The ones that concentrated on creating amazing and artistic images of Beautiful Women of course!) This is the first page on that subject, and about Helmut Newton, (One of my all time favorite famous photographers) All images on this page have been created by Helmut Newton. (More works by other famous photographers coming soon...)
The bio below is from leninimports.com:
Biography of Helmut Newton: [born: october 31st, 1920][died: january 23rd, 2004]
Born Helmut Neustaedter in Berlin October 31, 1920, he grew up in privileged circumstances in the home of his wealthy button-manufacturer father. He attended the city's American School, but was a bad student and was expelled when his fascination with photography, sparked by a camera bought when he was 12, overshadowed his interest in class.
After leaving school in 1936, the young Helmut worked as an apprentice to top photographer Elsie Simon, known as Yva, a job he held until he was forced to flee after the start of Adolf Hitler's vicious pogroms against German Jews two years later.
As he flirted with death by consorting with Aryan girls, his parents managed to secure him passage on a ship to China, but he stopped off in Singapore, where he got a job at the Straits Times newspaper, a job he held for just two weeks.
"Soon I realized how far I was from the goal I'd set for myself of becoming a Vogue photographer," he told the New Yorker last year.
Instead he met a glamorous older Belgian woman, and powered by an epic sex drive, became her lover and caroused around the British colony until moving to Australia in 1940, just ahead of the Japanese invasion. After briefly being interned as a German citizen, he later joined the Australian army and in 1948 married actress June Brunell, who would remain his partner for more than 50 years until his death.
Neustaedter changed his name to Newton, opened a small photo studio in Melbourne, and soon began contributing fashion photos to French Vogue in 1961, a magazine that he made his own for a quarter century. Over the years, Newton also contributed to magazines such as Playboy, Queen, Nova, Marie-Claire, Elle, and the American, Italian and German editions of Vogue -- his stark and provocative style setting a new industry standard.
His row of oversize prints of naked models, "Big Nudes," has perhaps become his best-know work, while his work had fetched up to 100,000 dollars apiece at auction.
An Australian citizen who lived in Monte Carlo in the summer and at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont hotel in the winter, Newton defied convention and set tongues wagging to the end.
Through his work, he evoked his close scrape with the Nazis -- his mentor Yva died at Auschwitz -- in a series of portraits of the most surprising subjects for a Jew who had spent his life wandering the world.
They included Hitler's official documentary maker Leni Riefenstahl (news) -- who, according to his 2003 autobiography made him promise not to "call her an old Nazi" -- former UN chief Kurt Waldheim, who also was inked to the Nazis, and far right-wing French political leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
But the exuberant photographer never dwelled on his luck nor the past. "I find this kind of living in the past useless and unproductive," he wrote in his book.
Well...there are famous photographers who photographed trees and mountains, and then there are the famous photographers like Helmut Newton...who concentrated their efforts on photographing beautiful women. The famous photographers at my-pin-up-girl.com are of the latter kind...yes...
Below is Helmut Newton's controversial image of Raquel Welsch.
