This raw, honest, and totally charming autobiography of the man who revolutionized fashion photography will be the book of the season for aficionados of fashion, photography, and gossip.
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"Early on - even during war, adversity, family separation, and new lands - Helmut Newton showed an exuberance for life, and an artist's dedication to recording it through photography that ultimately brought him international fame. Even now, at eighty, that exuberance has never dimmed as he tells in his highly entertaining biography entitled, simply, Autobiography."
— Dominick Dunne
“Helmut Newton's sharp eye and love of life have made his photographs incomparable, and now I understand how his own strange and unexpected history made him a master of his art. This outrageous and joyous book is also, incidentally, a breezy history of the 20th Century.”
— Paul Theroux
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HELMUT NEWTON is one of the most admired photographers of the last century. His most recent photography books include the retrospective Helmut Newton Work and the monumental Sumo, both edited by his wife, June. The Newtons live in Monte Carlo.
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A great book bringing you much closer to understand the mastermind behind those impressive photos. This autobiographie doesn't satisfsy the reader who is looking for a source for scientific research about Newton.
The book is much to short to be filled with numerous details and dates but it is actually like a great entertaining novelle about a life a professional writer couldn't have invented more thrilling and exciting. Newton finds a simple but vivid and illustrating language to describe how he was brought up and how he came around in the world and which influences changed him in which way. He pays a lot of attention to his erotic life-experiences which seem to open quite a simple way to analyze and understand his photos.
After all the reader gets the feeling to read an honest book I personally enjoyed a lot. You can easily finish the book in a day and so it's the perfect lecture for those who don't have too much time. It's not just made for fans of photography...
The book is much to short to be filled with numerous details and dates but it is actually like a great entertaining novelle about a life a professional writer couldn't have invented more thrilling and exciting. Newton finds a simple but vivid and illustrating language to describe how he was brought up and how he came around in the world and which influences changed him in which way. He pays a lot of attention to his erotic life-experiences which seem to open quite a simple way to analyze and understand his photos.
After all the reader gets the feeling to read an honest book I personally enjoyed a lot. You can easily finish the book in a day and so it's the perfect lecture for those who don't have too much time. It's not just made for fans of photography...
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Helmut Newton didn't need any embellishment when writing his autobiography for he trully lived a turbulent and exciting life. He was born as the son of a wealthy German-Jewish family in Berlin, 1920. When he was a teenager his father said to him, 'The only things you are interested in are your camera and girls. Boy, you'll end in the gutter!' Soon Helmut Newton's family lost everything when Hitler rose to power and he fleed to Australia where Helmut was first interned, along with many other "enemy aliens", before serving with the Australian Army during World War II as a truck driver. Helmut Newton married, opened a studio and specialized in fashion photography there. However, he was to move to Paris in 1961 were he eventually became world famous. In his later life, Newton lived in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles. He moved in the circles of the world's rich, famous and beautiful people till his dead in 2004.
Such can life be, and this book has reminded me why I love to read biographies and autobiographies so much, for they simply tell the most thrilling, exhilarating and dramatic stories. His work is very easy to read and I appreciated that he didn't focus on the technical aspect of photography. I liked the first third of his book best, when there was so much adventure and danger; light and shade.
Such can life be, and this book has reminded me why I love to read biographies and autobiographies so much, for they simply tell the most thrilling, exhilarating and dramatic stories. His work is very easy to read and I appreciated that he didn't focus on the technical aspect of photography. I liked the first third of his book best, when there was so much adventure and danger; light and shade.
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22. Dezember 2003
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I've been a fan of Helmut Newton since I was about 13 when, Woody Allenish, I miraculously happened upon his pictures of women. Unfortunately this book captures none of the excitement those pictures generate. He tells of growing up in Nazi Germany, his escape to China and his move to Australia. He also shares many (and there are many to share) of his sexual exploits. The problem I had, is if you take the pictures out of the book, it could almost be about anybody with an overactive libido (or imagination). All-in-all it is a gossipy read and amusing at that level but with very little to indicate what makes Newton's photographs some of the most recognizable around. If you're thinking about this book because you know his work, consider one of the books containing his photographs instead.
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A Thoroughly Enjoyable Book
9. Oktober 2003
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There are probably very few human beings who live life, as Tennyson would say, to the lees and on their own terms. If we are to believe him in this very readable autobiography, Helmut Newton is one of them. He has always listened to his own drummer and has walked away from assignments that lesser individuals would have been afraid to leave. A lover of both beautiful women and fast cars, he names names although he does say that some of the names have been changed to protect people's privacy.
I'm a great admirer of Mr. Newton so I read this chatty memoir with relish. Born in Berlin of Jewish parents, he has lived in and travelled to many places in his career as a fashion photographer. Although obviously a perfectionist when it comes to his art, Mr. Newton doesn't appear to take himself too seriously, a great attribute for one so talented as he.
Mr. Newton's life has not always been fun and games, however. He understands the horrors of Nazi Germany from first-hand experience and spent time during World War II in an internment camp for Nazis in Australia because he was a German. Never mind that he was a despised Jew and hated Hitler as much as the Allies did.
The last third of the book is entitled "Part II: The Photographs." Here Newton shows and discusses many of his now easily recognizable images. There is no particular order to this section. There is one photograph that he calls "pornographic", in case you are interested. And we learn that he hates the PR people who surround famous actresses. I doubt that anyone would be suprised to learn that tidbit.
If you are looking for a good collection of Newton's work, you should buy any of the books that are collections of his fine photographs printed on high quality paper. (I own his book of portraits, one of my favorite photography books.) The paper here is so-so, and the photographs are not identified on the pages where they are reproduced. While this is customary in fine art books, at least the many photographs from Newton's own life that accompany the text should be captioned. I understand that this is probably the fault of the publisher and not Newton's, however.
If you are a fan of this great photographer, as I am, you will enjoy this book thoroughly.
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A revealing look at an innovative artist
18. Oktober 2003
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I enjoyed reading the author's recollections, even though sometimes I wondered if they were wishful thinking (find it hard to believe that a 21 year old woman would be interested in a 14 year old boy - re: the bus story).
The only annoying part was having to constantly switch to the back of the book to read the photo illustrations.
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