"THE BEST OF HELMUT NEWTON" par Zdenek FELIX, Noemi SMOLIK & Urs STAHEL. Editions Schirmer / Mosel, Munich. 1993. in-8, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 156 pages. Textes en anglais de Noemi Smolik & Urs Stahel, traduit de l'allemand par Paul Kremmel, illustré de 105 reproductions photographiques couleurs et noir & blanc pleine page d'Helmut Newton.

 

"Helmut Newton is not a conventional fashion photographer. Leafing through any of his books makes this obvious. Although several of the photos in these books were also printed in fashion magazines , they are still not fashion photography. Even when women wear fashionable clothes in the pictures, the photos are more than mere fashion shots, since they process a timeless quality that at first seems inexplicable. The women in Newton's photos are mostly placed in settings that transcend the present and its impermanence; they assert their own existence in defiance of time. Newton's women appear in ancient, half-decayed italian gardens in which time seems long since to have stood still, they appear before grandiose entrances and in elaborately furnished rooms in fine, turn-of-the-century hotels, or they stand in elegantly furnished flats of the Parisian haute bourgeoisie, who cling to traditional luxury and stability, similarly withdrawn from the relentless pulse of time..." Extrait de "Overcoming the Other" par Noemi Smolik.

 

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