Newton Riviera, the photo exhibition to see in Monaco this summer
Helmut Newton and the Riviera is a story of light, first of all. In 1981, the German photographer left the gray of Paris for the azure of the Mediterranean. And it is in Monte-Carlo that he puts down his suitcases, after twenty years of living in the capital. But here, no early retirement. The low, Newton produced his most famous works, surely the freest period of his entire career. All the local elite parade in front of his lens, from the Princess Caroline a Paloma picassoPassing by Isabelle Huppert and david bowie, passing through the South of France. He even tries his hand at landscape with his series, rare, yellow pressof disconcerting glamour, which revisits crime scenes.
This South swinging between tinsel and authenticity today inspired an exhibition organized within the Villa Sauber at Monaco. Newton, French Riviera brings together his most beautiful shots, famous and rare, of the Côte d’Azur, the flamboyant decor of his slick and daring stagings. On the picture rails, nudes (indecent), swimming pools, yachts, palaces, stars… That is to say 280 sublime photographs that tell a Newton solar, and terribly lucid on the spangles of this superb Riviera, but so superficial, of which he is the amused witness.