Anna Wintour once said: “We want a photographer to take a dress, make the girl look pretty, give us lots of images to choose from, and not give us any attitude. Photographers – if they are any good – want to create art.”
In this case, the book: ‘World without Men’ – a selection of Helmut Newton’s fashion editorials taken between the mid 60’ and early 80’ – provides a spectacular odyssey through fashion photography’s visual world accompanied by Newton’s controversial scenarios and remarkable compositions, which broke the principles of photo shoots.
Since 7th December 2012, the Helmut Newton Foundation has been presenting the exhibition ‘Helmut Newton: World without Men / Archives de Nuit’ at the Museum for Photography in Berlin. Due to its big success, the duration has now been extended through 13th October 2013.
The exhibition presents many of the iconic fashion photographs that Newton took in Paris, Saint Tropez, Los Angeles, Milan, Berlin and London as well as the exhibition project ‘Archives de Nuit’, which premiered in Paris in 1992. The project brings together various black and white photographs from the late ’80s and early ’90: portraits, nudes, landscapes and still lifes.
This joint exhibition project presents not only an overview of fashion history through the eyes of one of its most esteemed photographers, but first and foremost, it provides an insight into the photographer’s work, pushing the visual and functional boundaries of the fashion photography genre.
Nata Ros
