#HELMUT NEWTON COFFEE TABLE BOOK SERIES#

The same year, Helmut Newton died, while the Helmut Newton Foundation was still under construction, leaving her the task to complete it. In 2004 June Newton published her autobiography Mrs. This picture, taken by Helmut Newton in New York in 1972, is part of this common project.

#HELMUT NEWTON COFFEE TABLE BOOK SERIES#

Around 15 years later, their iconic series Us and Them was born, published as a book and later transformed into a large exhibition, touring worldwide. In 1981 Helmut and June Newton left Paris and moved to Monaco. Two years later, her portraits were presented for the first time in a solo exhibition in Amsterdam, to be followed by numerous presentations worldwide. While her first book was published in 1983, she worked and oversaw Newton´s publication White Women as art director in 1976, and subsequently all of Helmut Newton’s other books and exhibition catalogues. In 1970, after having moved to Paris with her husband, she started her own career as a photographer under the pseudonym Alice Springs, and soon became a well-esteemed published artist herself. In 1956, she was awarded the Australia’s Erik Kuttner Award for best theater actress. In 1947 she met Helmut Newton, who had just set up a photo studio in Melbourne, and married him a year later. I look at it as an object.' -Catherine Taylor, .Born as June Browne in Melbourne, Australia, in 1923, she trained as an actress and had numerous engagements under the pseudonym June Brunell. Newton himself describes SUMO as 'terrifying and outrageous.

This outsized volume contains the body of Newton's controversial yet iconographic work, documenting fashion, fetishism, and above all an overriding obsession with voyeurism that can make the viewer feel complicit or uneasy by turns. In order to showcase this colossus, the book is packaged with its own stand designed by Philippe Starck. Each copy of the book is bound by hand and numbered and signed by the artist. Weighing over 65 pounds, measuring more than two feet long, and breaking any previous size record in book publishing, SUMO contains 480 pages of every aspect of Newton's outstanding career in photography. 'I wanted to build a monument to the most important photographer of the 20th century,' comments Benedikt Taschen, the publisher behind SUMO. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īringing an entirely new slant to the concept of the coffee-table book, SUMO is a suitably enormous homage to 79-year-old Helmut Newton, the master of subversive and erotic photography. Carefully revised by June Newton, and with its own presentation bookstand, the book remains a spectacular tribute to the 20th century’s most influential, intriguing, and controversial photographer, with hundreds of exquisite images, from his stunning fashion shoots to his shimmering nudes, provocative mise-en-scènes, and celebrity portraits. Copies now feature in numerous important collections around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, while legendary SUMO copy number one, autographed by over 100 of the book’s featured celebrities, broke the record for the most expensive book published in the 20th century, selling at auction in Berlin on April 6, 2000, for 620,000 German marks – approximately €317,000.Ī decade on from its first appearance, the XL SUMO brings this unprecedented publishing venture to an even wider audience with a lighter but no less glamorous format. Published in an edition of 10,000 signed and numbered copies, the SUMO sold out soon after publication and quickly multiplied its value.

At 35.4 kilos, TASCHEN and Helmut Newton created a landmark book that stood head and shoulders above anything previously attempted, both in terms of conceptual extravagance and technical specifications. The Helmut Newton SUMO was a titanic book in every respect: it broke records for weight, dimensions, and resale price.

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