White Women FROM THE PUBLISHER
White Women, Helmut Newton�s legendary first work, appeared more than twenty years ago. With it�s superior mixture of aesthetics, technical perfection and bourgeois decadence it has lost nothing of its potency and attractiveness. Newton�s work encompasses a wealth of themes, also embodying facets of the mass-media world of glamour, masquerade and show. Using subtle, yet striking images—like those of Paloma Picasso, Veruschka, Elsa Peretti, Karl Lagerfeld, David Hockney, and Charlotte Rampling—Newton embraces the delicate, natural beauty of the naked female body. White Women is a masterpiece of erotic visual literature.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
In the retained 1976 introduction, a Sotheby's curator calls this German photographer "the grand couturier of fashion photography" whose images "describe a world where money buys a particular brand of erotic liberation." Newton's brief remarks on his personal tastes accompany the 107 color and b&w images. Readers can judge for themselves whether his father's childhood assessment that "...you'll end up in the gutter" is correct. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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