Helmut Newton, Frames From The Edge, 1989
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A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy.
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Take four little thingies.
Do it on your side.
So feet together, a bit closer to the...
Go on, a bit more, a bit more, a bit more.
Now with no two hands, that's right.
That's nice. That's good. That's good. Chin down a little bit. There. Like that.
The same thing now with a smile. Yeah, yeah. Perfect.
I think real eroticism is never explicit.
Stop. There.
And I felt that Helmut, perhaps better than anybody,
was able to catch the hitherto unexplored moments of women's lives.
Chin down. A lovely big smile.
But they really were pictures of women as if the photographer seemed not to be there
and was able to penetrate into intimacy.
I want you to not smile but look dangerous.
Very vampy. That's good. That's perfect.
It used to be said of certain painters that they were the painters of women.
Helmut Newton is certainly the photographer of women and in his way has
shaped and crystallized the erotic fantasies of our time.
His models project a mixture of distance and availability, displaying neither
weakness nor doubt. Although always situated in contemporary surroundings,
they nonetheless seem to belong to a century of the future.
♪ Comes out the woods and it's raining ♪
And the words they say
Listen to the world, listen to the world
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