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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Helmut Newton: Legacy

Oct 31, 2021 – May 15, 2022
Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin, Germany

The famed photographer Helmut Newton, who died in 2004, would have turned 100 last year. Known as “the King of Kink,” he was provocative. As Newton once said, “If a photographer says he is not a voyeur, he is an idiot.” Vogue editor Anna Wintour has said that Newton’s photographs are “synonymous with Vogue at its most glamorous and mythic.” Though fashion photography made him famous, Newton’s portraits and nudes are equally striking and sometimes jarring. In this 100th-birthday display, fashion is the focus, but curator Matthias Harder sprinkles in a bit of everything. Contact sheets, Polaroids, and other props lead one into Newton’s rebellious world. —E.C.

Helmut Newton, Elle Paris 1969 © Helmut Newton Foundation.