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| | | | Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton didn't need any embellishment when writing his autobiography for he trully lived a turbulent and exciting life. He was born as the son of a wealthy German-Jewish family in Berlin, 1920. When he was a teenager his father said to him, 'The only things you are interested in are your camera and girls. Boy, you'll end in the gutter!' Soon Helmut Newton's family lost everything when Hitler rose to power and he fleed to Australia where Helmut was first interned, along with many other "enemy aliens", before serving with the Australian Army during World War II as a truck driver. Helmut Newton married, opened a studio and specialized in fashion photography there. However, he was to move to Paris in 1961 were he eventually became world famous. In his later life, Newton lived in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles. He moved in the circles of the world's rich, famous and beautiful people till his dead in 2004.
Such can life be, and this book has reminded me why I love to read biographies and autobiographies so much, for they simply tell the most thrilling, exhilarating and dramatic stories. His work is very easy to read and I appreciated that he didn't focus on the technical aspect of photography. I liked the first third of his book best, when there was so much adventure and danger; light and shade.
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A great book bringing you much closer to understand the mastermind behind those impressive photos. This autobiographie doesn't satisfsy the reader who is looking for a source for scientific research about Newton.
The book is much to short to be filled with numerous details and dates but it is actually like a great entertaining novelle about a life a professional writer couldn't have invented more thrilling and exciting. Newton finds a simple but vivid and illustrating language to describe how he was brought up and how he came around in the world and which influences changed him in which way. He pays a lot of attention to his erotic life-experiences which seem to open quite a simple way to analyze and understand his photos.
After all the reader gets the feeling to read an honest book I personally enjoyed a lot. You can easily finish the book in a day and so it's the perfect lecture for those who don't have too much time. It's not just made for fans of photography...
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