Helmut Newton: Private Property

About this book

Through their inimitable mixture of eroticism subdued elegance and decadent luxury Newtons pictures reflect in the highest aesthetic quality an obsession with human vanity from female exhibitionism to male voyeurism. With technical perfection an extremely detailed style and a relentless directness Newton staged the neverending psychodrama that contrasts glamour with the need for admiration self-confidence with the desire for self-presentation and Eros with Thanatos. Private Property was originally a three-part portfolio containing 45 b&w photographs. It includes Newtons best work from the period 1972-1983 an exquisite assortment of fashion shots portraits and erotic motifs which are all based on real location and luxurious lifestyles. The entire sequence of pictures from the Private Property portfolio is included in our book which first appeared in 1989.