Big Nudes - Hardcover

Newton, Helmut

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0937950025 ISBN 13: 9780937950029

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1982

Synopsis

A presentation of photographs of nudes by the photographer whose source of inspiration and vision is the idealization of a reality

About this title

About the Author:

Karl Lagerfeld was born in Hamburg in 1938. He is a fashion designer and was a long-time friend of Helmut Newton's who often made portraits of him. Since 1983, he has been Artistic Director of the Chanel haute couturiers.

Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton was born in Berlin in 1920. He died in an automobile accident in Hollywood in January, 2004. He began his career at the age of 16, working for famous Berlin photographer, Yva. As an 18-year-old, he emigrated to Australia, returning to Europe in 1957 to settle in Paris. As of the 1980s he lived in both Monte Carlo and Los Angeles. The first of his countless solo exhibitions took place in Paris in 1975. Awards for his photographic oeuvre included the German Gro??e Bundesverdienstkreuz, the French Grand Prix national de la photographie and the World Image Award.

From the Inside Flap:

With his Big Nudes, in the 1980s Helmut Newton created a quite unprecedented long-term bestseller. Simultaneously, it provided a concentrated image of his aesthetic agenda. Powerful women were presented in all their naked truth without fig leaves or fashion frills. This series of black-and-white photos, produced between 1979 and 1981, also marked a stylistic change in Newton's work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0937950025
• ISBN 13: 9780937950029
• Binding: Hardcover