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Newton, Helmut
(b Berlin, 31 Oct 1920). Australian photographer of German birth. He was brought up in Germany and apprenticed to the fashion and theatre photographer Yva from 1936 to 1938. In the latter year he went to Australia and, acquiring Australian nationality, worked as a freelance photographer in Sydney in the mid-1940s for Jardin des modes, Elle, Queen, Playboy and others. In 1958 he began working as a fashion photographer, predominantly for French and American Vogue and for Stern, producing images that were often overtly erotic, sometimes with violent undertones. In 1961 he settled in Paris. Though primarily a fashion photographer, he also took a number of portrait photographs of celebrities, such as Salvador Dalí, Figueras (1986; see Portraits, p. 191). From 1981 he divided his time between Monte Carlo and Los Angeles.
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