From December 3, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
World Erotic Art Museum, in Association with the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, is opening an exhibition of photographs by world famous photographer Helmut Newton curated by Helmut Schuster, Art Director (WEAM) and Dr. Veit Ziegelmaier Sammlungsleiter, Curator MDM Saltzburg. The exhibition features twenty-eight major works from 1982-2000.
Born in Berlin, October of 1920 to Jewish parents Klara “Claire” (nee Marquis) and Max Neustadter a button and buckle factory owner, Newton purchased his first camera at age 12. With the onset of the Nuremburg laws, and following the infamous “Kristallnacht,” his family was briefly interned in a concentration camp. Newton’s parents fled to South America while Helmut, 18, secured a passport leaving Germany in December of 1938. In Trieste, along with 200 others escaping the Nazis, Newton boarded a ship for China, landed in Singapore and began an odyssey, which took him to Sydney, Australia in 1940, to London in 1945 and ultimately to Paris.
It was in Paris that he worked at French Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar creating what was to become a lifelong career as a photo/artist and, historically, the legendary iconic photographer who shook off all constraints via his broad view of capturing the provocative worlds of beauty, eroticism, humor, money, power and, at times, violence.
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