Helmut Newton Biography

Following his recent death, Helmut Newton's position as one of the world's pre-eminent fashion photographers is assured. But to many he was much more than that. His controversial and beautiful pictures have broken down taboos, documenting and, to an extent, shaping society's changing attitudes to sex and female empowerment. Indeed author JG BALLARD has argued that Newton was in fact nothing less than the world's greatest visual artist.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

American Friends of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, USA

Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Brandeis University, Lewisburg, USA

Chamber Opera Theatre, New York

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA

Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Fonds regional d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Haus fur Deutsche Geschicht, Berlin, Germany

Michigan University, Dearborn, USA

Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Musee d'art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Jules Cheret, Nice, France

Musee departmental des Vosges, Epinal, France

National Portrait Gallery, London

Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, USA

Paris Audiovisuel, Paris

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

State University of New York at Albany, New York

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

'Helmut Newton in Sweden', Hasselblad Foundation at the Gothenburg Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1997

'Helmut Newton - Photographien', Camera Works, Berlin, Germany, 1997

'Pulp Fiction', Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, 1996

'Helmut Newton - Photography', Navio Museum, Osaka, Japan, 1996

'Helmut Newton. Aus dem photographischen Werk', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 1993-94

'Helmut Newton. Aus dem photographischen Werk', Josef-Albers-Museum, Bottrop, Germany, 1993-94

'Helmut Newton. Aus dem photographischen Werk', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 1993-94

'Helmut Newton. Aus dem photographischen Werk', Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, 1993-94

'Helmut Newton', Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan, Italy, 1993

Centre culturel française de Rome, Rome, Italy, 1993

'Archives de Nuit', Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, 1993

'Naked and Dressed in Hollywood', Pascal de Sarthe Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 1992

'Helmut Newton', Goro International Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, 1992

'Archives de Nuit', Credit Foncier de France, Head Office, Paris, 1992

'Biennale', Lyon, France, 1991

Museum of Modern Art, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1991

'Naked and Dressed', Hamilton Gallery, London, 1991

Kunstforum Galerie, Vienna, Austria, 1990

Hochschule fur Graphik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany, 1990

'Fashion Photographs & Portraits', The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan, 1990

'New Images', Carlesberg Glyptonthek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1989-90

'Fashion Photographs & Portraits', Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1989

'Fashion Photographs & Portraits', Seibu Art Museum, Funbashi, Japan, 1989

'Helmut Newton, Nevas Imagenes', Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain, 1989

'Helmut Newton in Moscow', Puschkin Museum & Perwaia Galeria, Moscow, Russia, 1989

'Fashion Photographs & Portraits', Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan, 1989

'New Images', Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, 1989

'Nouvelles Images', Espace Photographique de Paris Audiovisuel, Paris, 1988-89

'Portraits Retrospective', National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988-89

'Retrospektive', Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austira, 1988

'Retrospektive', Forum Bottcherstrasse, Bremen, Germany, 1988

'New Nudes', Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Germany, 1988

'Retrospektive', Berlinische Galerie/Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 1988

'New Nudes', Hamilton Gallery, London, 1988

'Retrospektive', Reinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany, 1987

'Nus inedits', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1987

'Retrospective', Musee de Groningue, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1987

'Retrospective', Palais de l'Europe, Menton, France, 1986

'Retrospective', Foto Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1986

Galerie Artis, Monte Carlo, 1985-86

G Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 1985

'Retrospective', Museo dell' automobile, Turin, Italy, 1985

'Retrospective', Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1984-85

'Private Property', Musee Cheret, Nice, France, 1984

'Private Property', Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, 1984

'Private Property', G Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 1984

Gallery Asher-Faure, Los Angeles, USA, 1983

'Big Nudes', G Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, 1983

Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy, 1982

Galerie Denise Rene - Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1982

Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1982

Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, 1982

Galerie Photokina, Cologne, Germany, 1982

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 1981

G Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 1980 American Center, Paris, 1979

Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1978

Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 1976

Photographers' Gallery, London, 1976

Galerie Nikon, Paris, 1975