Sex for Helmut Newton was different from the Playboy’s softcore offerings, however Hugh Hefner recognized the Berlin-born photographer’s talent and hired Newton to shoot ‘vanilla’ pictorials of Natassia Kinski and Kristine DeBell.
Newton’s fixated vision of sexuality will always be renowned for a departure point far beyond most people’s ken of fetishism, because his models’ lingerie was almost as expensive as the settings.
His ashes were buried next to Marlene Dietrich at the Städtischen Friedhof III in Berlin.
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Sehr Mittel Europa and Stanley Kubrick failed to capture that spirit in EYES WIDE OPEN, mostly because neither Nicole Kidman nor Tom Cruise are sexy.
But what else can be expected from Hollywood’s Barbie and Ken.