09/06/2008
HELMUT NEWTON - Photographies - Biographie
HELMUT NEWTON - Biography
1920 – born October 31 in Berlin
1930/32 – secondary school Heinrich von Treitschke in Berlin
1933/36 – American School in Berlin
1936/38 – takes photography lessons from Yvi, a Berlin photographer famous for her fashion, portrait and nude photography
1938 – leaves Germany; his first destination is Singapore
1939 – begins work as a photojournalist for the Singapore Straits newspaper, but is dismissed after two weeks on the grounds of incompetence
1940 – moves to Australia where he spends the next seventeen years
1940/1944 – serves in the Australian army. He then opens a studio in Melbourne and gets Australian citizenship
1947 – meets June Browne (June Brunell), an actress, and marries her the following year; June takes up photography under the pseudonym Alice Springs
1956 – returns to Europe and works in London for the British edition of Vogue for one year
1957 – moves to Paris; in the 1950's and 1960's contributes to various (French, American, British and Italian) editions of Vogue; works also as the photographer for Elle, Marie-Claire, Jardin des Modes, Playboy (US), Nova, Queen and other publications but does most of the work for Vogue and Stern
1975 – first solo exhibition in the Nikon Gallery in Paris
1976 – awarded the Art Directors Club Award in Tokyo for best photograph
1977/78 – his first book White Women is awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award
1978/79 – awarded the gold medal by the German Art Directors Club for his achievements in photography
1981 – moves to Monte Carlo
1987 – founds his own magazine titled Helmut Newton's Illustrated (by 1995, 4 issues are published; reprinted in 2000 by the Schirmer/Mosel publishing house from Munich) 1989 – conferred the decoration Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by Jack Lang, the French minister of culture. Awarded the award for outstanding achievements and contribution to the photography in the 1960s and 1970s by The Photographic Society of Japan; the then mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac decorates him with Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris
1990 – awarded the French Grand Prix national de la Photographie
1992 – becomes Chevalier des Arts, Lettres et Sciences in Monaco; in the following years he receives numerous other awards and prizes in Japan, Germany and USA; when in the States, he spends all winters in the Marmont mansion just outside L.A., photographing Hollywood giants
2004 – dies on January 23 in Hollywood; in June the Helmut Newton Foundation is opened in his hometown Berlin
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