Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire

Great book for Helmut Newton Fans

The Christianity and even more the Islam have abolished to idolize woman as a goddess. However this was the daily use in the Greek, Roman and Egyptian religion (sorry to remember, that the Aztecs tore the heart of young virgins out of the live body). Newton has reversed this development - he told us, to idolize women again. I visited the Helmut Newton exhibition A GUN FOR HIRE in the "Museum for Photography" in Berlin, near the Station ZOO, Jebens-Street 2. Sometimes I thought Newton is cynical, contemptuous against women, emphasizes the power struggle between the sexes too much. After the reading of his autobiography I thought: "What a humorous, witty person! " After having the pleasure to watch the film of his wife on his work, I thought, oh God, I get dizzy by this hand-held shaking camera. After the reading of the museum catalogue A GUN FOR HIRE I always get quiet again. Newton was skilful. He regarded himself as A GUN FOR HIRE self ironically, as an unfortunately rentable killer because of the kind money. But if he had carried out a banal "killer" order with the necessary simple, most childish aesthetics guidelines for any fashion magazine, showing the models in a predefined wardrobe sales beneficially - then he afterwards extended the dialog with a lady in most cases after completion of this obedient work for the capitalist system of the chewing fan heating - then he enlarged the dialog into the direction of more human, erotic, adult and no longer infantile situations, real and no more prudishly, running free experimenting for new emotion and aura. The growing picture collection from the vermiform appendix after that official work peeled out that image, that unique art form, which everyone connects now with the name Helmut Newton - a milestone in the history of photography. Before the visit of the exhibition A GUN FOR HIRE (in the long night of the museums in Berlin, January 2006) I went astray in that nightmare of holocaust stele field in Berlin. Newton had managed to escape from the insanity of the Third Reich. Newton's work could have never resulted under the thumb of any ideology. At first in the private, thereupon in a society, where is the liberty to make something new, it was possible for him, to make what could correctly be described as "making a woman to an idolized goddess" again. A GUN FOR HIRE is the reminding bequest which, shortly before his death, he bequeathed to that town which had dropped him 1938. I hope, that Berlin people (and many more) will awake and learn, what he wanted to show...

This is perhaps one of my favourite Newton books.It is worth noting that there are none of his famous black and white nudes or portraits in this book and that it is essentially a collection of Newton's catalogues, campaigns and editorials from the 80s right up to the early 2000s. This book is a much-needed companion and spiritual sequel to Newton's earlier book, Pages From The Glossies which documents his extensive editorial work from the late 50s to 1998. Gun For Hire fills in the blanks left by that book by presenting both his later advertising and editorial work including his last published images for both US Vogue and Vogue Italia in 2004.I can't recommend it enough, a real treat for anyone interested in Helmut Newton 'The Commercial Fashion Photographer'.

FashionPhotoが写真家ニュートンの全ての出発でした。タイトル"A Gun for Hire"(金で雇う殺し屋)に込められたプロ意識に満ちたニュートンの名台詞の引用に、クライアント先への熱烈なアピールと、自分自身への強い意志が感じられます。カラー＆モノクロのページ構成はクライアント事に分類。BIBA, CHANEL, Yves Saint Lurent, Versace, Thierry Mugler, BlumarineなどのFashion Shot (Fashionカタログの総編集)と、VOGUEの為のエディトリアル･ワーク。'62年〜'03年までの作品集です。色艶があるSexualな要因も健在、官能の世界が堪能できます。シースルーのマリエ(BlumarineのWeddingDress)を身に着けてる"モニカ･べルッチ"のSexyな色艶、きわどいアングルの愛欲、洋服がはだける欲望的色気、などの性愛的美学と、芸術家のArt感覚を持ち合わせたニュートンに本当に感銘します。

Very satisfied with the it and I highly recommend this seller.

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