Original prints of the photographs from his August 1976 pictorial of DeBell, "200 Motels, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation" were sold at auctions of Playboy archives by Bonhams in 2002 for $21,075, and by Christies in December 2003 for $26,290. Newton shot a number of pictorials for Playboy, including pictorials of Nastassja Kinski and Kristine DeBell. Newton also worked in portraiture and more fantastical studies. A heart attack in 1970 slowed Newton's output, but his notoriety continued to increase, most notably with his 1980 "Big Nudes" series, which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, underpinned with excellent technical skills. He established a particular style marked by erotic, stylised scenes, often with sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts. His works appeared in magazines including, most significantly, French Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Newton settled in Paris in 1961 and continued work as a fashion photographer. He returned to Melbourne in March 1959 to a contract for Australian Vogue. Newton left the magazine before the end of his contract and went to Paris, where he worked for French and German magazines. He won a 12-month contract with British Vogue and left for London in February 1957, leaving Talbot to manage the business. Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. The studio was renamed 'Helmut Newton and Henry Talbot'. Newton went into partnership with Henry Talbot, a fellow German Jew who had also been interned at Tatura, and his association with the studio continued even after 1957, when he left Australia for London. The exhibition of 'New Visions in Photography' was displayed at the Federal Hotel in Collins Street and was probably the first glimpse of New Objectivity photography in Australia. He shared his first joint exhibition in May 1953 with Wolfgang Sievers, a German refugee like himself who had also served in the same company. In 1946, Newton set up a studio in fashionable Flinders Lane in Melbourne and worked on fashion and theatre photography in the affluent post-war years. She later became a successful photographer under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs (after Alice Springs, the central Australian town). In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage name June Brunell. After the war in 1945, he became a British subject and changed his name to Newton in 1946. In April 1942, he enlisted with the Australian Army and worked as a truck driver. He was released from internment in 1942, and briefly worked as a fruit picker in Northern Victoria. Internees travelled to the camp at Tatura, Victoria by train under armed guard. Newton was interned by British authorities while in Singapore, and was sent to Australia on board the Queen Mary, arriving in Sydney on 27 September 1940. After arriving in Singapore he found he was able to remain there, first briefly as a photographer for the Straits Times and then as a portrait photographer. At Trieste he boarded the Conte Rosso (along with about 200 others escaping the Nazis), intending to journey to China. He was issued with a passport just after turning 18 and left Germany on 5 December 1938. The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws meant that his father lost control of the factory in which he manufactured buttons and buckles he was briefly interned in a concentration camp on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938, which finally compelled the family to leave Germany. Interested in photography from the age of 12 when he purchased his first camera, he worked for the German photographer Yva (de) (Elsie Neulander Simon) from 1936. Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara "Claire" (née Marquis) and Max Neustädter, a button factory owner. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications." Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer.
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