Feminists hated him. Critics called him a genius, whose use of Amazonian models and fetishistic imagery embraced sex and Surrealism. Now, with her new book celebrating Helmut Newton’s 70-year career, his widow Alice Springs tells Sean O’Hagan how her husband redefined fashion photography

Sunday August 7, 2005
The Observer

In 1966, just as the Sixties started swinging, Helmut Newton shot a series of photographs for the now defunct high-fashion magazine, Queen. As the images were being laid out for publication, Jocelyn Stevens, the owner of Queen, paid a surprise visit to the office. In his lively memoir, Autobiography, Newton takes up the story.

‘Jocelyn sees the layouts … picks them up, throws them on the floor, and screams: “What are these masturbating women doing in my magazine, lying on the floor, while phallic symbols are exploding outside the windows?”‘ (more…)

I really enjoy his work - I remember see a show of his work in the old Berlin train station.

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