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INSPIRED : The Centennial of Helmut Newton

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Today we celebrate the Centennial of Helmut Newton’s birth ( Born: October 31, 1920, Berlin). I deeply appreciate and admire his work, particularly understanding his early life in Berlin in the 1930’s that undoubtedly influenced his approach to his photographs.
Below is a collection of quotes that I transcribed from the latest documentary of his life (The Bad & The Beautiful) that collectively describes his work. For now, I will leave it at that.

Helmut Newton standing in Yva’s studio in Hotel Bogota, Berlin
Photograph taken by and gifted to me by Joachim Rissman

 

Tono Stano and Helmut Newton in Prague’s Staré Mĕsto Photograph gifted to me by Tono Stano

Quotes : The Bad & The Beautiful

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“You’re not going to get a lovely girl on a lovely beach. That’s not what he was about.”
Anna Wintour
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“For me it’s very unpleasant. Not the man, but the work. I don’t expect a man to look like his work; especially when it’s about fantasy and dreams.”
Susan Sontag
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“There is no neutrality…there is no right and wrong…everything is tainted with a point of view.”
Susan Sontag
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“It’s a passion. An obsession. He’s obsessed.”
June Newton
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“When I look at the pictures, they are different than me. It was his imagination. It was my imagination…”
Claudia Schiffer
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“It’s actually extraordinary Helmut was accepted by the industry because he was much more dangerous, much more ambiguous and frightening than an Avedon or a Penn”
Anna Wintour
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“It’s great to be a provocateur. That’s what the world needs, a form of provocation because it stimulates thoughts and it stimulates ideas.”
Charolette Rampling
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“In a lot of these pictures (with me and very big white men), they want me, but I’m not available. I am so close….”
Grace Jones
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“What we do in fashion…attraction and loveliness… the visions of loveliness…   do need work that is thought-provoking and sometime upset people.”
Anna Wintour
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“You express the idea… (he is not) photographing you, (he is) photographing an idea that is in his head…and you are the vehicle…”
Isabella Rosellinni
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“I learned to respect a piece of film…”
Helmut Newton

Ted Witek wins in London’s Black & White Spider Awards

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On October 26th in London, the 14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards nominated 9 of Ted Witek’s photographs (5 photographs in Fashion, 2 in Nude, 1 in Fine Arts and Silhouette). Ted Witek won 3 of these awards (2 in Fashion & 1 in Nude). Ted‘s work was selected among 6418 entries from 73 countries.

The winning photographs:

FASHION CATEGORY

Miki, by Ted Witek

 

Sunday Afternoon, by Ted Witek

 

 

NUDE CATEGORY

Fabrica Mannequim #1, by Ted Witek

North South, East West – Portugal Exhibition

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North South, East West

Ted Witek (1957-   ) was born and raised in Connecticut. He left the United States for Germany in 2001, moving to Portugal in 2004. He immediately fell in love with the country and its people.

Having the artistic good fortune to travel many times to the North and South of Portugal as well as to Madeira and the Azores, Ted found the country among the most visually stimulating places that he has visited. Whether watching youngsters jumping from all heights in the hot sun into the Douro River, discovering an abandoned  mannequin factory in Chiado, awaiting fishermen returning to shore in Sesimbra long before sunrise, or observing the biker celebrants of the Concentração de Motos in Faro, Ted was continuously inspired to capture a visual story.

Learning he would move to Canada in 2008, Ted immediately purchased a home in Azoia at Cabo Espichel where he now keeps a studio.

In 2012, Ted photographed all of beautiful Canada’s provinces for a new series entitled “Canadiana” with first edition prints auctioned for the Herbie Fund Charity at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (SickKids). This series brought him between the world’s longest coastlines, from the east’s land’s end at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia and as far west as Bennett Lake —- only reachable  by floatplane over the icefalls and glaciers of Yukon.

Hilda Yasseri, Curator

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Images from the opening night at Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal