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“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Jobs #Portraits
“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

#Way #Taste #Exciting
“There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Art #Dirty
“My women are always victorious.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Luxury
“Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Work Out #Bags
“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

#White #Car #Doe
“I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Hate #Creative
“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

#Photography #Discipline #Challenges
“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Intellectual #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 #Art #Dirty
“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

#Photography #Art #Gun
“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 #Art #Ideas
“In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Art #Vocabulary #Two
“The first 10 000 shots are the worst.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Firsts #Shots #Worst
“Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Moving #Inspiration
“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

#Photography #Fashion #Interesting
“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
“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

#Beautiful #Stars #Three
“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

#Thinking #Availability #Giving
“I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Hate #Color #Cameras
“The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Photography #Hard Work #Thinking
“In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.”
-- Helmut Newton

#California #House #Backyards
“I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Art #Wife #Directors
“I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Girl #Years #Lasts
“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

#White #Special #Cameras
“They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Thinking #Guy #Needs
“You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Would Be #Should #Feels
“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

#Wings #People #Lasts
“I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.”
-- Helmut Newton

#Notebook #Writing #Thinking

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