Helmut Newton's Playmates

September, 1987

Helmut Newton's PlaymatesPhotographer Helmut Newton is frequently credited with having introduced sex to fashion photography. Among other feats, he demonstrated the more playful aspects of leather for the unconventional crowd. His book White Women features a photo of a semiclad blonde straddling the prostrate man whom she's energetically suffocating with a pillow. Over the years, Newton has shot a number of subjects for Playboy--among them Nastassja Kinski--but never a Playmate. We were curious...