Featuring the work of Helmut Newton, Bernd Uhlig, Vanessa Beecroft, Jürgen Klauke, Erwin Wurm, Barbara Probst, Viviane Sassen, Inez & Vinoodh, Cindy Sherman, Yang Fudong, Robert Longo and Robert Mapplethorpe, this exhibition explores how these photographers have presented and represented the human body, performance and movement.
Location: the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin
Dates: 30th November 2019 to 10th May 2020*
*NOTE: this exhibition has been extended to 20th September 2020
Helmut Newton’s SUMO was first published by TASCHEN in 1999, a record-setting book of epic proportions. One of a limited edition of only 10,000 copies became the most expensive book of the 20th century when it was auctioned in 2000, signed by many of those whose portraits feature.
Comprising of over 400 images, this new edition ‘Celebrating 20 Years’ is presented in a new slipcase and comes with a booklet showing behind-the-scenes of the book.
A tribute to the most expensive book of the twentieth century, the ‘SUMO’ exhibition shows 464 framed pages from the legendary TASCHEN book on its twentieth anniversary.
‘The Three Boys from Pasadena’ (Mark Arbeit, George Holz and Just Loomis) present their varied work
In June’s Room hangs prints from the Newtons’ personal collection including works by photographers that Helmut and June admired, such as August Sander, Brassaï, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, Horst P. Horst, Richard Avedon, Franco Fontana and Peter Beard.
Location: the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin
Dates: 7th June to 10th November 2019
Smashing its estimate of $600k, Helmut Newton’s famous diptych ‘Sie Kommen!’ which first appeared in French Vogue in 1981, was sold by Phillips for $1,820,000 at the Photographs sale on 4th April, New York. This is a personal record for Newton, and these become some of the most expensive photographs ever sold.
‘Sie Kommen!, French Vogue, Paris, 1981 (dressed)’ © The Helmut Newton Estate / Maconochie Photography
‘Sie Kommen!, French Vogue, Paris, 1981 (undressed)’ © The Helmut Newton Estate / Maconochie Photography
Opened on 2nd June at the Helmut Newton Foundation, this exhibition brings together photographs collected by Carla Sozzani since 1990, including imagery across fashion, portraiture, surrealism and still life. Featuring works by Helmut Newton, Berenice Abbott, Duane Michals, Francesca Woodman, Daido Moriyama, Man Ray and William Klein, the exhibition is a showcase of powerful work and of Carla Sozzani's eye for collecting.
Helmut Newton's unique eye forms the new monograph in Louis Vuitton's Fashion Eye series. Newton left France in 1981 to live in Monaco with his wife June because, he said: “I like the sun, and there’s none left in Paris.” From the terrace of his residence, on the 19th floor of a skyscraper, he overlooked the principality and observed his subjects posing them on building sites and Belle Epoque monuments. Within the setting of a Monegasque quotidian, between pools and palm trees, concrete and azure, his models are positioned using the legendary and provocative visual grammar that is a wholly Newtonian signature.
Mercenary of fashion, formidable portraitist, master of female nudes, most striking was Newton’s ability to make a thoroughly planned photograph feel fresh and dynamic. Provocative and controversial until the end, his work was referred to as “porno chic”. Working principally for French Vogue over four decades, as well as other famous fashion and lifestyle magazines such as Playboy, Nova, Marie Claire, Traveler, Vanity Fair and American Vogue, causing scandal and then influence.
Published November 2017
The Musée YSL Marrakech opens today, featuring images shot by Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff and Michael Roberts.
'Patio circulaire'
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus
Salle YSL, featuring images by Helmut Newton, Michael Roberts, Jeanloup Sieff and others
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus
Two portraits of Yves by Helmut Newton, plus the cabinet of curiosities
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus
Entrance to la salle YSL, featuring the Mondrian dress
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus
Museum façade
Photo © Fondation Jardin Majorelle / Photo Nicolas Mathéus
The YSL Mondrian dress
Helmut Newton's iconic image of YSL's Le Smoking, shot in rue Aubriot, Paris, 1975, hanging alongside Jeanloup Sieff's 1970 image of a YSL lace-back dress
Michael Roberts' cover for Vogue Paris, 1988, featuring YSL's cubist tribute to Picasso
Helmut Newton portrait of Yves Saint Laurent and Catherine Deneuve, shot for ELLE in 1982
A triple exhibition from Helmut Newton, Mario Testino and Jean Pigozzi. Featuring original Newton prints, rarely if ever seen before, alongside a Testino exhibition specially conceived for the Helmut Newton Foundation. Huge floor-to-ceiling images from Testino's archive of fashion and nude shots contrast with Jean Pigozzi's 'Pool Party' (also a book published by Rizzoli), which is exhibited in the more intimate June's Room. Smaller snapshots offer a spontaneous and personal insight into the lives of A-listers such as Liz Taylor, Mick Jagger and Bono.
