Helmut newton —or the “king of kink,” as he’s been dubbed—was a maverick in the world of fashion photography Simultaneously, it provided a concentrated image of his aesthetic agenda While newton’s striking photos of sinewy models regularly graced the covers of vogue, it was his nude photographs that ultimately skyrocketed him to fame, with his “white women” portfolio in 1976 and his “big nudes” portfolio in 1981
Helmut Newton, "Big Nude VII, Nancy La Scala, Monte-Carlo", 1990
“if a photographer says he is.
