02.D. Brian Nelson Helmut Newton started it. He
influenced everyone, period. His images are cruel
and cold and sexy. His photographs were very much about the places
where they were made. Paris, Monte
Carlo, New York and Berlin were shown their character through
his work.
His Los Angeles photographs featured nude
starlets, Cadillacs and the Chateau Marmont. Even in his death, his
chosen icons played a role. As sad as it is to hear of his passing, the
method was somehow fitting.
With his introduction of kink and sex, power and cruelty into fashion
photography, Helmut Newton became the master, the inventor of all that
followed. My sympathy goes to June, his
partner in
everything, for her personal loss.
