HELMUT NEWTON : POLA WOMAN (SCHIRMER ART BOOKS ON ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & EROTICS)
HELMUT NEWTON
El trabajo de Newton tiene un estilo propio que hace reconocer su obra allí donde se observe. Fotos llenas de glamour, seducción y elegancia le han hecho portada de las más prestigiosas revistas. Son famosas sus fotos de bellas mujeres en ambientes lujosos. Realmente, Newton ha sido un enamorado de la belleza, que casi obsesivamente, sabía captar como nadie con su cámara.
What a sketch is for the painter is a Polaroid for the photographer, namely the first formulation of a concept, the raw material of the imagination, as it were. When Helmut Newton published a selection of his Polaroids in Pola Woman in 1992, the subculture called it a stroke of genius. It was the first time that the master let people look directly over his shoulder. We became witnesses to the magic and often intense process by which erotic fantasies become finished images; the preliminary stages of a perfectly styled Newton photograph. It is remarkable, if not astonishing, that even this "raw material" possesses very original qualities and a charm of its own.
