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Helmut Newton – Famous Fashion Photographer

Category: Famous Photographers
Written on Jun 17, 2008 by Sandro Dzneladze
Helmut Newton – Famous Fashion Photographer

Helmut Newton is a famous photographer who primarily specialized in fashion photography early on but later became well known for his portraits of nude women.

His start in life was relatively difficult in comparison to many other well-known photographers. He was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. By 1938 as he was from jewish decent and the oppression of the Jews throughout Germany became to rough on his family. His father had lost his job and they decided to leave Germany. On their way to China Helmut Newton had found himself staying in Singapore working as an intern for portrait photography. This was his first job in the photography field.

Overtime Helmut increased in photography skills. He eventually made his way to Australia during the height of the Second World War. Throughout several years there, Newton had become a citizen of Australia and had even setup his own studio post-world war. This was a very influential time throughout all culture and he had really set himself up as one of the most well known fashion photographers in the world.

Later on in life, Newton had moved to California in the United States. He then started working as one of the pioneer photographers for the popular magazine, Playboy. Many of his photographs taken for Playboy still remain as some of Hugh Heffner’s favorites of all time.

Due to Helmut Newton’s sheer popularity, his photographs are worthy quite a bit of money. In fact, in 2003, roughly a year before his death, two of his photographs he had taken for Playboy were sold for close to $25,000 a piece. His photographs have only climbed in value since his death.

He was buried in his hometown of Berlin which he always loved very much despite living several places across the world.

P.s. His wife was an actress June Browne. Who surprisingly also became a famous photographer under the pseudonym ‘Alice Springs’.

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