![]() The image is ambiguous because, contrary to popular belief, the woman depicted appears inaccessible, presenting herself in a modern, elegant and confident manner. Rue Aubriot is another shot that has entered the history of photography: taken in the Parisian alleys of the Marais district, it takes its name from the street where Newton’s apartment was located, which at the same time was also the place of prostitutes looking for clients. It was in the Ville Lumière of the 1960s that he developed his dynamic and innovative style and vision: the series of photographs he took for Courrèges published in Queen magazine were revolutionary and, showing the fashion of the time, explored society by referring to issues such as demonstrations in European metropolises and the radicalization of young bourgeoisie. The decisive turning point in his life was felt when he moved to Paris, where he began his collaborations with leading fashion magazines, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. ![]() The exhibition’s curator, Matthias Harder, describes him as difficult to frame as his work is so prestigious and emblematic that any analysis remains a superficial response, never managing to reach the full depth of his projects: he was not merely a provocateur, as his nickname “the King of Kink” suggests, or merely the master of the female nude, but his figure is discussed touching on a much broader context as he was able to reinvent the total language of photography, daring something no one had done before in the commercial photography.īorn in Berlin in 1920 to an upper middle-class Jewish family, he left Germany at a very early age while still a young apprentice in fashion photography. Legacy, that investigates his iconic shots and multiple collaborations with subjects in fashion, film, and art related to him. Palazzo Reale explores his persona and his character through a retrospective, Helmut Newton. ![]() His inimitable and unrepeatable style, visible in each of his images, still shakes the fashion image today, creating new trends traceable in contemporary art. Helmut Newton calls himself a revolutionary since he anticipated cultural and social trends that spread in the years that followed: his broad, rich and systematic vision contributed to define our visual culture as well through provocative and innovative shots that codified new languages and transformed the representation of fashion into true art.
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