Helmut Newton

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton was a photographer who lived and worked in Australia, Paris, Monaco and Los Angeles, where he died in 2004. In 1936, he became a pupil of the German photographer Else Simo, known as "Yva", to whom he owed his photographic style. He became world-renowned for his incongruously staged, provocative fashion photographs, which revolutionized the conventional image of women in the magazines of the 1970s and 1980s. His photographs have been exhibited in prestigious institutions such as the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia. He has also collaborated with magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, making his mark on the history of fashion photography.