German Humor
France holds provocative retrospective of fashion photographer Helmut Newton (sun-sentinel)
PARIS (AP) — Yves Saint Laurent empowered women and the same could be said of
his contemporary, iconic fashion photographer Helmut Newton, the subject of a
retrospective at Paris’ Grand Palais that is not for the prudish.Several
portraits of Saint Laurent, who gave women the male tuxedo, are included in
the show, paying tribute to the designer whose empowering, masculine vision of
women so influenced Newton.”He was avant garde. The woman in Helmut Newton’s
work is powerful and dominant– the master in a world without men,” said co-
curator Jerome Neutres.The show is a dizzying array of 250 pictures, most
provocative photos of models in erotically charged poses, images that for five
decades until his death in 2004 graced slick fashion magazines the world
over.The retrospective begins in Paris, where Berlin-born Newton lived in the
1960s working for French Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. The photos shown here
established a particular style marked by stylized scenes, such as models in
outer-space, often with fetishistic subtexts. But the women and the men were
still clothed.It was in the mid-1970s that he first became obsessed by the
nude — especially dominatrix representations of women.His work was defined by
stark …
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