Title
Bergstrom, Paris
1976
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1976
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Edition
- Print 10, Suite III, Edition 22/75
- Dimensions
- 36.3 x 24.0 cm image; 40.5 x 30.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. verso, pencil "Helmut Newton". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Edron Pty Ltd - 1995 through the auspices of Alistair McAlpine
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 331.1996
- Copyright
- Unable to display image due to copyright restrictions
- Artist information
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Helmut Newton
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About
Born in Berlin, Germany, Helmut Newton emigrated to Australia in 1940. He married actor June Browne with whom he relocated to Europe in the late 1950s. By the 1970s, Newton had gained a reputation with his high-contrast photographs of erotically-charged Amazonian models. His oeuvre is regarded as one of the most important in photographic history for his representation of women not as passive objects in the economy of images but persuasive subjects. He said in 1987 that much of his most renowned work would never have been made were it not for his wife’s encouragement: ‘When [June] was really sick, I truly didn’t think I would take another picture....She got me back into it...Women are much stronger than men – in every possible way. I truly believe that.’
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Discipline and Beauty, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Jun 1997–17 Aug 1997
Architects of Glamour + Masters of Style: excepts from a century of fashion photography, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, 27 Jun 2003–07 Sep 2003
The fashion of Helmut Newton and Bettina Rheims, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Feb 2013–17 May 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Judy Annear, Discipline and Beauty - women, fashion, photography, Sydney, 1997. no catalogue numbers
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Robyn Daw (Curator), Architects of Glamour + Masters of Style: Excerpts from a Century of Fashion Photography, 2003. no catalogue numbers
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