Helmut Newton - Art of Photography

Music : Yann Tiersen - La Boulange Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter (October 31, 1920 -- January 23, 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications." BIOGRAPHY 1920: born in berlin as helmut neustädter; resides in berlin-schöneberg. 1930 until 1934: attends school at the heinrich von treitschke realgymnasium in berlin-schöneberg. 1934 until 1938: resides in berlin-halensee. 1934 until 1935: attends the american school in berlin-schöneberg. after change of residence, attends secondary school in berlin-grunewald. 1936 until 1938: apprenticeship with the portrait, nude and fashion photographer yva (else simon, neé neuländer) in berlin-charlottenburg. 1938: flees berlin via train at zoo station towards trieste, taking with him two stills cameras. finds work in singapore at the "singapore straits times." 1940: arrives in australia and serves for five years in the australian army. in 1946 becomes an australian citizen. 1947: meets actress june brunell, who poses as a model for him. they marry one year later. 1956: extended travels through europe. in london acquires a one-year contract at british vogue, which newton quits after 11 months. thereafter in paris and return to melbourne; contract with australian vogue. 1961: back to paris, takes apartment in the rue aubriot in marais quarter. full-time...