It was all very unobtrusive and the Marines and police didn’t realize that I or they were being photographed. Newton stood across the street and shot with a telephoto lens. He would stake out a location, have me stand there, near policemen or Marines, and have me stroll by. We went to the American Embassy and the Ritz. She remarked that I looked so much like Jackie. I remember that Ursula Andress was also being photographed that day, by someone else. “We used Vogue studio at Place de Bourbon. Those pictures were very good but it was before Newton developed his distinct style). (I had worked with him in 1966 at the French Space Center. It was impossible to resist the temptation to be in Vogue and work with such a great master. I did wear couture at the time and had several garments in those styles. “He convinced me to stomp around the streets of Paris dressed in haute couture.

He said I should not cut my hair, but wear it long and big, because it suited me and the look of the time. One day I met Helmut Newton who encouraged me to celebrate my own beauty and own my image. “ For my entire career, I had tried NOT to look like Jackie… I was disguising myself (rather unsuccessfully) with short hair and later with plucked eyebrows and dark lips, very un-Jackie.

Sylvia Gobbel on being chosen for Sie Kommen: Below, we speak with two of his significant muses, Sylvia Gobbel and Lisa Morand, along with ONGallery director Keith Allsopp, offering insights into the legendary fashion photographer’s career. Newton once remarked, “I like photographing women who appear to know something of life.”Ĭurrently, the online fine art photography space ONGallery is presenting a rare selection of Newton’s most highly regarded images. Among these were Arielle Burgelin, Sigourney Weaver, Gunilla Bergstrom, Charlotte Rampling, and Henrietta Allias (who famously graced the cover of Sumo, Helmut Newton’s extravagantly oversized book). These were women who, in Newton’s view, were more than attractive models, standing out as emblems of an empowered sexuality.

From the 1950s through the 1990s, he perfected a frank, erotic vision that pushed the boundaries of fashion photography.Ĭertain models came to figure prominently in his oeuvre. Of the great fashion photographers of the 20th century, the German-Australian photographer was among the most influential and likely the most imitated. “My women are always victorious,” Helmut Newton once surmised.

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