Helmut Newton's fashion photography portraits record the opulent worlds of highly stylized and privileged people. He is able to illuminate the quirks and pretensions of his famous subjects without judging them. His sitters are drawn from the worlds of art and cinema

Helmut Newton: Born in 1920 in Berlin to a prosperous Jewish family, the teenaged Newton left Germany in 1938 after the escalation of Nazi violence. He went first to Singapore, where he lived for several years, and then to Australia. There he would meet his future wife and collaborator, June Newton (who is also known as the photographer Alice Springs), and begin his career in fashion photography. Newton lived in London in the late 1950s before achieving commercial success in Paris at French Vogue in the 1960s

Helmut Newton worked for every major fashion magazine in Europe and the USA Including French, Italian, German & British Vogue, Stern, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire and Queen

Newton's repertoire featured fashion�s dark side, a photographer who fundamentally changed the terms of the fashion image. Over the last 40 years he has brought a unique mixture of style, sex, and theater to fashion photography and has shaped not only magazine imagery, but fashion itself

Newton was able to illuminate the quirks and pretensions of his famous subjects without judging them. His sitters were many of the rich and famous such as, Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger and Charlotte Rampling (seen above)