Top 39 Quotes About Helmut Newton
#1. Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.
Jerry Hall
#2. Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
Terry Richardson
#3. I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.
Hari Nef
#4. There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.
Leonard Nimoy
#5. I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
Christian Louboutin
#6. People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
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#7. Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
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#8. Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
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#9. Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.
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#10. I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
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#11. It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
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#12. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
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#13. I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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#14. You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.
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#15. I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
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#16. I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
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#18. Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
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#19. What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
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#20. In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
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#21. I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
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#22. In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
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#23. Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.
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#24. I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
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#25. There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
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#26. It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
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#27. It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
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#29. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
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#30. The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
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#31. There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.
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#32. The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
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#34. What I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
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#35. The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
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#36. My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
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#37. I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things,
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#38. They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
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#39. The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl.
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