HELMUT NEWTON. "Fashion Photograph", offset lithography, Special Collection, 35.5 x 23 cm.

Helmut Newton was born in 1920 in Berlin and died in 2004 in Los Angeles. He is considered by many to be a legend in modern photography. During the 1930s, he studied fashion and portrait photography for Yva, one of Berlin's leading society photographers. He was inspired by both Brassaïs and the documentary photographer Erich Solomon. He was frequently published in the magazines Elle and Vogue and outside the fashion world he was noticed for his black and white nude photographs. He often tried to recreate the forbidden and scandalous - famous people caught red-handed.