Whether they are naked or dressed in a dinner jacket, the women are powerful, seductive, dominant, striking and sometimes nothing less than intimidating. Newton photographed primarily on location and used daring, innovative scripts for his shoots. Helmut by June, the film made by Newton’s wife June in 1995, will also be screened. The majority of the works featured in the exhibition are vintage prints from the collection of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. Newton is responsible for a rich, authentic and complex oeuvre that can be considered one of the most iconic of the last quarter of the 20th century. This exhibition is made possible with the support of:įoam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation. The exhibition is organised in close collaboration with the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. And it was no accident that Newton was closely acquainted with Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designers that played with male-female relations and strived for a new, contemporary female image. This is all directly represented in Newton’s photography. Traditional power relations shifted and it was a period of fervent female emancipation and looser sexual morality. The 1970s and early 1980s were characterised by social change. Newton took up his camera in the 1950s, but his breakthrough didn’t come until the 1970s, primarily with the striking photographs he produced on commission for French Vogue. But this is also the reason why his work is often all too quickly and simply pigeon-holed, and why there’s insufficient appreciation of the intrinsic complexity and multi-layered nature of his oeuvre. It’s certainly true that women play a central, erotic role in Newton’s work. The name Helmut Newton immediately conjures up images for many a photography enthusiast, namely those of long-legged, high-heeled – and usually scantily clad – women, who radiate an unbridled sense of eroticism. > Discover the exhibitions currently on view at Foam
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