Remembering Helmut Newton

May, 2004

Remembering Helmut NewtonWhether Helmut Newton was shooting fashion for Italian Vogue or the famous for playboy, his photographs were always edgy, unpredictable and uncompromisingly erotic. His death in a car accident early this year at the age of 83 represents the loss of one of the world's great visual stylists.Born in Berlin, Newton bought his first camera at the age of 12. His taste in women was influenced by the Prussian maids who worked in his family's prosperous household. He fled the Naz...