![]() Original prints of the photographs from his August 1976 pictorial of DeBell, "200 Motels, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation" were sold at auctions of Playboy archives by Bonhams in 2002. Newton shot a number of pictorials for Playboy, including pictorials of Nastassja Kinski and Kristine DeBell. Newton also worked in portraiture and more fantastical studies. His Naked and Dressed portfolio followed and in 1992 Domestic Nudes which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, these series all underpinned with the prowess of his technical skills. A heart attack in 1970 reduced Newton's output, nevertheless his wife's encouragement led to his profile continuing to expand, especially with a big success, the 1980 studio-bound stark infinity of the Big Nudes series. He established a particular style marked by erotic, stylized scenes, often with sadomasochistic and fetishistic subtexts. His images appeared in magazines including the French edition of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Newton and his wife finally settled in Paris in 1961 and work continued as a fashion photographer. ![]() He returned to Melbourne in March 1959 to a contract for Australian Vogue. Newton left the magazine before the end of his contract and went to Paris, where he worked for French and German magazines. He won a 12-month contract with British Vogue and left for London in February 1957, leaving Talbot to manage the business. Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. The studio was renamed Helmut Newton and Henry Talbot. Newton went into partnership with Henry Talbot, a fellow German Jew who had also been interned at Tatura, and his association with the studio continued even after 1957, when he left Australia for London. The exhibition of New Visions in Photography' was displayed at the Federal Hotel in Collins Street and was probably the first glimpse of New Objectivity photography in Australia. He shared his first joint exhibition in May 1953 with Wolfgang Sievers, a German refugee like himself, who had also served in the same company. In 1946, Newton set up a studio in fashionable Flinders Lane in Melbourne and worked on fashion, theatre and industrial photography in the affluent postwar years. Later she became a successful photographer under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs (after Alice Springs, the town in Central Australia). In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage name June Brunell. After the war in 1945, he became a British subject and changed his name to Newton in 1946. In August 1942, he enlisted with the Australian Army and worked as a truck driver. He was released from internment in 1942 and briefly worked as a fruit picker in Northern Victoria. Internees travelled to the camp at Tatura, Victoria by train under armed guard. ![]() Newton was interned by British authorities while in Singapore and was sent to Australia on board the Queen Mary, arriving in Sydney on 27 September 1940. ![]() After arriving in Singapore, he found he was able to remain there, first briefly as a photographer for the Straits Times and then as a portrait photographer. At Trieste, he boarded the Conte Rosso (along with about 200 others escaping the Nazis), intending to journey to China. He was issued with a passport just after turning 18 and left Germany on 5 December 1938. ![]() The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws meant that his father lost control of the factory in which he manufactured buttons and buckles he was briefly interned in a concentration camp on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938, which finally compelled the family to leave Germany. Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar. ![]()
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