HELMUT NEWTON
He was born in Berlin in 1920, the son of a Jewish livestock farmer and an American mother.
He was interested in photography from a young age, and in 1938 moved to Singapore to work as
a photojournalist.
At the end of the Second World War he opened a photography studio in Melbourne and started to
work as a freelance photographer collaborating with several magazines, among which Playboy.
Starting in the 1960s he undertook a career as a professional fashion photographer. His pictures, characterised by sophisticated eroticism and revealing a superb photographic technique, revolutionised fashion photography.
He died in Los Angeles in 2004, following a car crash.
Calendar 1993
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