The Museum of Photography in Berlin is also showing unknown images in »Helmut Newton. Legacy«

In 1936, Helmut Newton began an apprenticeship in Berlin with the photographer Yva. She was a leading nude and fashion photographer in the Weimar Republic and was considered an innovative photographic artist in Europe. She experimented with an image of man that was in a sense gender-insensitive and used the means of surrealist photography until she was banned from working by the Nazi regime in 1938. Newton's training with his idol Yva had a strong influence on him throughout his life.

Starting in the 1950s, Newton, who lived in Australia and later in Monaco and Los Angeles, worked for various well-known fashion magazines, most notably Vogue. Newton understood how to stage an unattainable glamour, a fantasy that distinguished his photographs from those of other photographers. During his career, Newton received numerous international awards and became one of the most expensive fashion photographers of the 20th century. He stated that he wanted to portray women as strong and powerful, yet some of his photographs were criticized as misogynistic. Newton, who died in 2004, divided minds like few other photographers of his time.

The Museum of Photography is now opening a retrospective on Newton's 101st birthday on October 31, 2021, curated by Matthias Harder, director of the Helmut Newton Foundation. Some 300 photographs of Newton will provide a comprehensive, entirely new impression of Newton's long creative period, as around half of the exhibits are being shown for the first time. Starting in the summer of 2022, the exhibition will tour various international museums.