HELMUT NEWTON: In Focus | The Saturday Paper

Gerard Ortiz

Helmut Newton’s fashion pictures is the aesthetic equivalent of a metallic style in one’s mouth. Luxurious, cold, glamorous and cruel, the late Berliner’s noirish visuals are superlative shows of woman beauty, tapped into the darkish, cartoonish recesses of male fantasy. Females show up almost unreal – statuesque and superhuman – […]

A snapshot of upcoming photography collection sales

Gerard Ortiz

A large-format Helmut Newton and 110 fashion prints from the Susanne von Meiss Collection lead this spring’s photography sales at Christie’s Paris ‘Susanne von Meiss is a great connaisseuse,’ says Elodie Morel-Bazin, Christie’s European Head of Photographs. ‘Buyers like collections like hers; they feel they can trust them.’ […]