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The people in my pictures are 'arranged' in a kind of mise-en-scène, but my pictures aren't false; they're based on what I see in life with my own eyes. For example, the photo of the woman in the Eiffel Tower briefs: obviously this takes place after work -- the business-man has picked up his friend. He's wearing a blue suit, nice cuff links, and he's driving a black D.S. Citroën - a classic middle-class and government car in France. On the seat beside the woman is the establishment newspaper Le Monde. And what he does before he goes home (he hasn't reached the stage yet where he takes his friend to a hotel) is to undress her in the car. This happens all the time during the summer in the Bois de Boulogne. The cars are piled up as if on a Lovers' Lane in America. -- Helmut Newton
HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1974
Details
HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1974
chromogenic print
signed, dated, annotated 'exhibited in Paris + London' in ink and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the verso)
7 7/8 x 12in. (30.3 x 20cm.)
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1974
chromogenic print
signed, dated, annotated 'exhibited in Paris + London' in ink and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the verso)
7 7/8 x 12in. (30.3 x 20cm.)
Provenance
From the artist to Terence Donovan, 1976;
by descent to his son, Dan Donovan;
acquired 2004.
by descent to his son, Dan Donovan;
acquired 2004.
Literature
Newton, White Women, Stonehill Press, 1976, pp. 68-69.
Exhibited
Galerie Nikon, Paris, Spring, 1975;
The Photographers' Gallery, London, January 1976.
The Photographers' Gallery, London, January 1976.