Title
Karl Lagerfeld, Paris
1973
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1973
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Edition
- Print 11, Suite I, edition no.22
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 36.1 cm image; 30.4 x 40.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed verso "Helmut Newton". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Edron Pty Ltd - 1996 through the auspices of Alistair McAlpine
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 822.1996
- Copyright
- Unable to display image due to copyright restrictions © Estate of Helmut Newton
- Artist information
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Helmut Newton
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About
Born in Berlin, Germany, Helmut Newton emigrated to Australia in 1940. He married actor June Browne with whom he relocated to Europe in the late 1950s. By the 1970s, Newton had gained a reputation with his high-contrast photographs of erotically-charged Amazonian models. His oeuvre is regarded as one of the most important in photographic history for his representation of women not as passive objects in the economy of images but persuasive subjects. He said in 1987 that much of his most renowned work would never have been made were it not for his wife’s encouragement: ‘When [June] was really sick, I truly didn’t think I would take another picture....She got me back into it...Women are much stronger than men – in every possible way. I truly believe that.’
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Marshall Blonsky, Helmut Newton: Private Property, Munich, 1990, 11 (illus.). plate no. 353.
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