Notable German Photographer

Germany is renowned not just because of Heidi Klum, Bavarian Oktoberfest, and sausages, but also because Germany is home to a exceptional photographer who changed the context of fashion photography. Helmut Newton was known for his distinctive style in photography, which can be seen in his photos in diverse magazines specially the French Vogue. Newton has developed his own style and was famous for his stylized, schematic, and erotic scenes more often than not has an underlying fetishistic and sado-masochist situation.

Helmut Newton was born Helmut Neustadter in Berlin, Germany on October 31, 1920 to a wealthy German-Jewish father and American mommy. He was already entranced in photography during his teen years and had worked for a German photographer before absconding the Nazis in 1938. He then found career in Singapore and served as photographer for Strait Times before transporting to Australia.

He espoused an actress and fellow photographer, and set up his own studio and worked mainly on fashion photography. Years later, he went back to Europe where he invented his distinctive style. In 1970, he went through a heart attack that resulted to trimmed down his productivity, but still active in his studies of nude women. Eventually, he developed an even greater technical abilities and became even renowned because of his "Big Nudes" series in 1980 exhibiting his erotic-urban style images. However, he died in a car misfortune in California on January 23, 2004.