Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton is an acclaimed photographer. He contributed a lot to the world of photography. He is well known for his passion in nudity and he made a big impact to the art of being naked and was best known for his stark, black-and-white nudes. He is well respected for his work of art and is also an inspiration to a lot of amateur photographers. Newton's is a fashion photographer, whose work appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Elle, Queen, Stern and Vogue.

Born Helmut Neustaedter in Berlin October 31, 1920, he grew up in privileged circumstances in the home of his German-Jewish garment-factory owner father and an American mother. Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin but he is not succeeding in his school work, it seems that something is overshadowing his interest in class and his attention is focused to something else. He became a bad student and was expelled in school then he found his passion when his fascination with photography started, sparked by a camera bought when he was 12 years old. Engrossed in photography from a young age, he permanently left school in 1936. The young Helmut worked as an apprentice to top photographer Else Neulander Simon, a job he held until he was forced to flee after the start of Adolf Hitler's vicious pogroms against German Jews. As he tried to escape prosecution for being a Jew and flirted with death by consorting with Aryan girls, his parents managed to secure him passage on a ship to China, but he stopped in Singapore to briefly work as a photographer for the Straits Times for two weeks before settling in Melbourne, Australia.

Once he arrived in Australia he was first interned, before serving with the Australian Army during World War II. In 1948 Newton married photographer and actress June Browne. He set up a studio in Flinders Lane and worked primarily on fashion photography in the affluent post-war years. He and his wife lived quite a lavish