Helmut Newton Professions : Photographer Born : October 31, 1920 Died : January 23, 2004 Browse All Authors Top 36 quotes by Helmut Newton I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things. Helmut Newton taste exciting way The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. Helmut Newton photography art moving Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture. Helmut Newton photography inspiration moving I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person. Helmut Newton hate photography creative My women are always victorious. Helmut Newton luxury It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room. Helmut Newton car paper white My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Helmut Newton portraits photography jobs There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste Helmut Newton photography dirty art I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me. Helmut Newton cameras special white There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic. Helmut Newton availability giving thinking Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. Helmut Newton photography intellectual looks I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older. Helmut Newton three stars beautiful ...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong. Helmut Newton working-it trying looks Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already. Helmut Newton photography dirty art What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting. Helmut Newton fashion photography interesting It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life. Helmut Newton photography ideas art Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire. Helmut Newton gun photography art Genius and taste don't go together. Helmut Newton genius taste together The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to. Helmut Newton discipline photography challenges I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Helmut Newton lasts wings people Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
