It was during the 1960s that he began to really hone his distinctive style and began exploring the voyeuristic and sadomasochistic themes that would go on to define him.Ī heart attack in 1970 left him unable to work and, for a while, it was unclear whether he would ever regain his energy and enthusiasm for photography. Newton and his wife finally settled in Paris in 1961, where his images appeared in magazines like Vogue Paris and Harper’s Bazaar. In March 1959, he returned to Melbourne to work for Vogue Australia. However, he left London before the contract was up, moving to Paris to work for various French and German magazines. Newton’s growing reputation as a fashion photographer earned him an opportunity at Vogue magazine, which led to a year-long contract with British Vogue in 1957. He then went into partnership with Henry Talbot, a fellow German Jew émigré. In May 1953, Newton shared his first exhibition with Wolfgang Sievers, called New Visions in Photography. In 1946, he set up a studio in Melbourne and began working on fashion, theatre, and industrial photography. ![]() Newton’s arrival in Australia also kickstarted his photography career. Two years later, he married an Australian woman called June Brown, who subsequently became a successful photographer under the pseudonym Alice Springs. Once the war ended in 1945, he became a British subject and changed his name to Newton in 1946. He was held at the Tatura internment camp in north-eastern Victoria until 1942, before enlisting in the Australian army as a truck driver. In September 1940, Newton was detained by British authorities and sent to Australia. The next month, after being issued a passport on account of turning 18, Newton tried to emigrate to China but instead ended up in Singapore, where he briefly worked as a photographer for the Straits Times. The increasingly oppressive regulations Jews faced as a result of the Nuremberg Laws forced Newton’s family to flee Germany in November 1938. Four years later, Newton started working for the German fashion and portrait photographer Yva, whose style would heavily influence his own. He attended the Heinrich von Treitschke Realgymnasium school and the American School in Berlin and first became interested in photography after buying his first camera at the age of 12. ![]() Helmut Newton-born Helmut Neustädter-was born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family in 1920.
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