Helmut Newton in full sun in Monaco
CRITICISM – The photographer of women with powerful eroticism adopted the Principality from 1981 to his death. The city honors him.
He sits at the entrance to the exhibition, tapered and tanned pin-up legs, starlet hat and white shirt, in front of the lens of his wife Alice Springs, on their balcony in Monaco at 19e stage (At home with Helmie, headlines the switcher magazine). A self-mockery that resists time and welcomes the visitor to this strange kingdom of forced eroticism and caustic humour, “Helmut Newton, Riviera” in the beautiful Villa Sauber.
His women with perfect bodies have the assurance of goddesses gazing at the human world and its little pleasures from Olympus. They never smile. This insolent man, who died at the age of 83 on January 23, 2004 from a heart attack in a fall worthy of the hero of Billy Wilder in sunset boulevard. Acid, glamorous, always full of dreams and impulses.
Newton’s long relationship with Monaco was built gradually
Matthias Harder, director of the Helmut Newton Foundation
“1981. “I like the sun; there is no more in Paris”, he would have declared to the Monegasque officer in charge of investigating his file. Newton underlined with a smile that with the election of François Mitterrand will…