For me, something very interesting about Helmut Newton is the fact that he was Jewish growing up in Berlin while the ‘Aryan race’ was celebrated. Later on, he discovered that that group of people hated him and wanted to kill him. I see that tension in his photos. I see that he admired them, but then he discovered the rejection and the cruelty. I see the celebration of that kind of beauty, yet the women are very frightening too. That made his photos very compelling.
