The Helmut Newton Foundation celebrate its tenth year anniversary. The museum first opened its doors with two exhibitions “Us and Them” and “Sex and Landscapes”, which were selected by Helmut Newton shortly before his death. Now, ten years later, foundation president June Newton (a.k.a. Alice Springs) has chosen the same combination.
The first show “Us and Them” is a joint exhibition and book project that was completed by Helmut and June Newton in 1998 and subsequently exhibited at various venues. A photographic journal of their life together, the project includes self-portraits, at times intimate, reciprocal portraits, as well as photographs of actors, artists, and other prominent figures of the times. Taken during the 1980s and 1990s at separate sittings, the photographs of the international jet set by Helmut Newton and Alice Springs are presented side-by-side in pairs. Each portrait tells a complex story, as the people in the black-and-white photographs meet us as private individuals, and then as public figures, displaying quite different emotional facets.
And the second, “Sex and Landscapes” allows us to discover a different side of Helmut Newton. Taken between 1974 and 2001 in black-and-white and color, large-format landscapes as well as nude photographs are presented together. A timeless atmosphere of melancholy converges upon elegant and vain models confronted with their reflection. Overclouded seascapes and breaking waves outside Monte Carlo, neo-baroque Madonna figurines in small Italian towns, and the Grunewald lake in Berlin, mingle with nudes in glamorous and provocative scenes of sexual obsession, played out by a female cast.
EXHIBITION
Helmut Newton / Alice Springs: Us and Them
& Helmut Newton: Sex and Landscapes
From June 5th to November 16th, 2014
Helmut Newton Foundation
Museum of Photography
Dr. Matthias Harder
Jebensstrasse 2
10623 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 318 648 56
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