Other Helmut Newton Books
Helmut Newton – Portraits
In this book you will find portraits of celebrities shown as never before. Portraits including – among many others – Andy Warhal, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Salvador Dali, Grace Jones, Natassia Kinski (dancing with a Marlene Dietrich doll) and Prince Rainier. Helmut Newton’s Portraits shows how Newton’s portraits are often shocking, manipulative, and bizarre but never boring. The book contains full-page reproductions and starts with an interview between Carol Squiers’s and Helmut Newton. 23 color and 169 black-and-white photographs. Highly recommended!
Helmut Newton’s Illustrated 1-4 (Re-Issue)
This 135 page paperback contains photographs from Newton’s very rare photo magazine called Newton’s Illustrated that was published between 1985 and 1995. Helmut Newton published his most powerful pictures in this, his own magazine, but only released four issues. These rare collector’s editions have now been combined in one volume. In its mix of erotic nudes and provocative journalistic photography, Helmut Newton’s Illustrated documents some of the strongest visual images of the past two decades. Salon reported that the photographer who gained worldwide notoriety for his stylish portraits of naked women says would never shoot nudes again; Helmut Newton’s Illustrated showcases much of the last work in his signature genre.
Helmut Newton – Work
For many years work was a great alternative to the extremely pricy SUMO book. But now that SUMO has been re-released you might as well buy that instead. Work contains 300 photographs by Helmut Newton spanning most of his career. It has selected fashion and advertising photographs, nudes, portraits, montages and contains some color photograpsh as well. This book accompanied an exposition in 2000 and clearly shows Newton’s signature style. Even in the notorious shot of a model wearing both riding boots and a saddle, Newton’s model obviously owns her sexuality. This strong sexual empowerment was considered a threatening stance to many. Because of this bold approach to nudity and sexuality, celebrities often allowed themselves a more blatantly sexual persona in front of his camera than they might for any other photographer. This resulted in truly astonishing images of Sigourney Weaver, Catherine Deneuve, Elisabeth Shue and others.
Playboy: Helmut Newton
For nearly 30 years, Helmut Newton shot stylishly soft-core pictorials for Playboy. Newton’s fashion photography was famous for its dark eroticism and its suggestion of BDSM in between other fashion photographs for magazines like Vogue and Elle. This book contains 160 photographs of his work shot for Playboy and shows highly stylized photographs with some fetishistic overtones. Collected between shimmering metallic covers are more than 150 color and black and white photographs. We see Newton’s take on Playmates in Los Angeles, Nastassja Kinski playing out a fantasy with a doppelgänger doll, a Lolita-esque travelog, and lots more. Playboy: Helmut Newton contains a foreword by Hugh M. Hefner and an introduction by Walter Abish. It also features an afterword by Gary Cole who was Playboy’s director of photography for the past 30 years.
Helmut Newton – Sumo (Original release)
This is the biggest and most expensive book production in the 20th century that started it all. It is the limited edition of 10,000 copies worldwide, each signed and numbered by Helmut Newton himself! “SUMO” was a titanic book in every respect: a tribute to the twentieth century’s most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer. This copy is one of the few currently available for sale and prices seem to be steadily increasing every year. Measuring 50 X 70 cm (20 X 27.5 inches) and weighing approx. 30 kg (66 lb.), the book contains 464 pages, a world record. “SUMO” is a unique publication that was edited by June Newton and features a wide selection of over 400 pictures, most of which were published for the first time. It covers every aspect of Newton’s outstanding career in photography from his stunning fashion photographs to his nudes and celebrity portraits. Philippe Starck designed the unique table for displaying the book at home. “SUMO” is available to all Newton fans and photo devotees in a limited edition of 10,000 copies, all numbered and signed by the artist. Fortunately for those of us on a budget, a smaller and more affordable re-issue was published in 2009 by Taschen to commemorate the 10th anniversary of this book. The 2009 re-issue of Helmut Newton’s Sumo is available for less than $100 here, but if you want the original, “real” thing that is coveted by collectors world wide and have some money to spend, then this is the book to get.
Helmut Newton & Alice Springs: Us & Them
This 199 page book contains a collection of photographs by both Helmut Newton and his wife, Helmut Newton who published her works under the pseudonym of Alice Springs. The book is divided into self-portraits and portraits by both artists of each other. The book ends with a joint section that features the same subjects as seen by the two photographers. Works include photographs of a wide range of riviera-style celebrities and includes pictures of Catherine Denueve and Lady Bubbles Rothermere, a young Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace who is naked on a leopard-skin sofa. The self portraits are revealing and sometimes disturbing.
Helmut Newton met his wife June in Australia in 1947. At that time he was just becoming a fashion photographer and she was an actress. In 1970 June started taking pictures as well but using the pseudonym of Alice Spings. Her work is mostly focused on portraiture while Helmut Newton shook up the fashion photography world with highly stylized, often very erotic and provocative model photography. “Us and Them” shows the pictures they took of each other, as well as self-portraits and celebrities that they both photographed. It shows a very intimate, warm relationship between the two photographers as well as between the husband and wife.
After the book “Pages from the Glossies” which offers an in-depth view of Newton’s fashion photography work, this book shows mostly unpublished images of the deeply emotional and intense relationship between Helmut and June Newton.
Helmut Newton – White Women
White Women was and still is the legendary first book with works by Helmut Newton and was first published in 1976. Newton’s
unsurpassed and never equaled blend of aestheticism, decadence and clearly visible supreme technical skill are just as appealing and controversial now as as it was over thirty years ago. Many consider this book as one of his masterpieces.
Helmut Newton – Pola Woman
This 2004 paperback re-issue of the highly collectable 1992 hardcover contains 152 pages that document the intense process through which Helmut Newton’s vision of an erotic fantasy photograph comes to life and results in the highly stylized photographs that we’ve come to know of him. This book offers a rare opportunity to see the “raw material” on polaroid and gives as an insight into the genius that was Helmut Newton.
Helmut Newton – Sex and Landscapes
This 112 page book by Taschen accompanied the 2001 inaugural show for the new Zurich Gallery of Helmut Newton’s dealers de Pury & Luxembourg. The book, which is also the exhibition catalogue contains 79 pictures on 112 pages and documents the mix of landcapes and sexually charged photography that was gradually expanded with another 30 images for later exhibitions in the Wilhelm II palace in Berlin together with the exposition ‘Us & Them’. The book was written by Philippe Garner and edited by June Newton.
Helmut Newton – Gun for Hire
This 216 page book contains a selection of Newton’s huge array of fashion catalog photography work. Helmut Newton did not consider himself an art photographer but said that he was a “Gun for Hire”, a fashion photographer hired by magazines to do commision work. Considering the amount of exposure his work has gotten during and after his lifetime from museums and exhibitions worldwide, I think its clear that his work is considered art by most others. This book shows a election of his catalog work from 1962 to 2003 and contains his last editorial photographs for the US and Italian version of Vogue. Highly recommended not only for fans of Newtons photography but those studying fashion as well.
Helmut Newton – Pages from the Glossies
This 543 (!) page hardcover book shows Helmut Newton’s work as it appeared in numerous editions of Vogue and other mostly european magazines and contains the fair share of female nudity as we’ve come to known from one of the worlds most influential photographers of the 20th century. The book shows the photographs as part of the magazine layouts. It should be noted that is quite different from the regular perfect reproductions we’ve come to appreciate from such publications as the excellent SUMO re-issue by Taschen. Still, this book gives the reader a unique view of changing fashion styles with lots of never before seen material published from teh late 1950s to 1990s. The book contains 360 color and b&w illustrations and was edited by June Newton and Walter Keller.
Helmut Newton: Naked and Dressed in Hollywood
This rare and thus highly collectable book was published in 1992 by Pascal de Sarthe Gallery and contains an introduction by Jan van der Marck titled “Does Helmut Newton really need an introduction”. It contains 27 striking full-page plates and was created to accompany an exhibition in 1992 in Los Angeles at the Pascal de Sarthe Gallery.
Helmut Newton: Private Property
This tiny (19.7×14.6×1.3cm) 112 page book contains 45 high quality black and white photographs with rich and deep blacks. The book covers the full range of stylized subjects that Newton was known for and makes an excellent cheap introduction into the world of Newton’s incredible photography. On of it’s biggest selling points however is the remarkably detailed essay on fashion photography that provide some interesting views on the genius that was Helmut Newton. Highly recommended.
Helmut Newton – Photofile
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a low price. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography. This 144 page, tiny book (7.5×4.9×0.5 inches) contains an excellent long introduction by Karl Lagerfeld and shows approximately 60 photographs by Helmut Newton including one of the Big Nudes. Highly recommended.
Helmut Newton – Autobiography
No artist collection is complete without an autobiography. This book is a must have for Helmut Newton fans and aspiring photographers in general. Newton is an exceptional writer and in this 320 page book he takes us on a fascinating journey across Europe, Autralia, the UK and the USA. It is a life story that is truly an inspiration for anyone who seriously considers a career in photography. The book only contains a small number of images so unlike most of his other books, this one mostly contains text. This is a MUST HAVE however so we highly, highly recommend this book.
10 years after releasing the ultimate, most sought after, most expensive, largest and heaviest photography book of the 20th Century, this incredible photography book by Helmut Newton IS FINALLY BACK IN PRINT! With 464 pages of the most incredible fashion, nude and portrait photographs by one of the greaters photographers of all time and an included beautiful plexiglas bookstand this is a MUST HAVE for all Helmut Newton and photography fans! The new release is considerably smaller than the original but still has a very impressive size. More importantly however it is finally available to fans around the world at the incredibly low price of less than $100! The new release comes with a stunningly beautiful plexiglas stand for displaying the book at home or at the office (note: the book contains a significant amount of full frontal nudity!). This is without a doubt the publication highlight of 2009 and a must have for any Helmut Newton fan or photography fan in general. What are you waiting for? GET THIS BOOK WHILE STOCK LASTS!
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