FILM 1409: HELMUT NEWTON: FRAMES
FROM THE EDGE
A camera crew follows Helmut
Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond,
big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic
fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where
he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots,
interviewing models, and discussing his work. It's not art and it's not good
taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he
married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing
is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus,
resulting in more personal photographic projects.
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