Fashion PhotographyMarch 31, 2006 4:40 pm
Helmut Newton - The Lucid Dreamer
Helmut Newton 1920-2004
Newton’s photography has endured by decades, as poetic and mysterious as when it first appeared in the 60’s. His naked models still trigger accusations of sexual voyeurism. Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is just a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support.
His photographs drain the libido from the once charged spaces of the late 20th Century, from hotel rooms to those penthouse apartments.
