Helmut Newton Autobiography Hardcover

Helmut Newton was born in Berlin in 1920 to a wealthy Jewish family, but he had no interest in school and was an overprotected child. At the young age of twelve, he purchased his first camera, sparking a fascination with photography that would eventually lead him to international fame. When Kristallnacht tore Germany apart and he was barely eighteen, Newton managed to escape the Nazis, however, he never made it as far as his intended destination of China. After indulging in a series of shipboard romances, Newton arrived in Singapore and became a gigolo and the lover of an older woman. But as the world was at war, talk of interning German Jews became prevalent even on the secrets of Singapore. So Newton left once more and ended up in Australia, where he joined the Australian army and served as a private for five years. He then opened his first "tiny" photography studio in Melbourne and in 1948 he married his wife, June, a successful actress. In the 1950s, Newton moved to Paris where he continued to astonish clients with his beautiful and provocatively erotic images of women. His controversial "White Women," published in 1976, earned him the titles of King of Kink and Prince of Porn. His distinctive visual vocabulary has been widely imitated.

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