Live Auction 3458Triple XXX: Photographs from the Collection of Don Sanders
HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Lot 321 'One day in the year 1980 I found in a German newspaper a reportage showing the offices of the special German police anti-terrorist unit called "Die Fahdungstelle G5-G9." They were entrusted with the hunting down of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. I cut these pictures out of the newspaper and kept them by my side for a long time. After a long time I decided to create a series of female nudes in the spirit of a passport photo, shot against a white background, lit very simply by one strobe light from the side with a prominent shadow on the seamless paper.
For a long time I referred to this body of work as "The Terrorists". Much later they became "The Big Nudes."'
Helmut Newton

HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)

Paris ('Big Nudes' shoot), 1980

Closed29 September 2014

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HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Paris ('Big Nudes' shoot), 1980
a suite of 26 gelatin silver prints
each signed, titled 'Paris', dated, dates '1/3' in pencil and Monte Carlo copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the verso); accompanied by a letter on Newton's stationery, signed, dated December 12, 2002 and extensively annotated in ink
image: each approximately 7 3/8 x 11¼in. (19 x 28.5cm.) or the reverse
sheet: each approximately 9 x 12in. (23 x 30.5cm.)
(28)

With A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans

Specialist note

Although numbered '1/3', this set of 26 prints from Newton's extraordinary 'Big Nudes' shoot is actually only one of two in existence. The other set is held by the Newton Estate in Berlin.