In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage name June Brunell. Later she became a successful photographer under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs (after Alice Springs, the town in Central Australia).

flees Berlin via train at Zoo station towards Trieste, taking with him two stills cameras. Finds work in Singapore at the Singapore Straits Times.Alice Springs. The MEP Show / Helmut Newton. Yellow Press / Mart Engelen. Portraits, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin Newton has said that he considers 40mm the “perfect focal length,” although a lot of his work is shot using the Rollei and Hasselblad and standard 80mm prime lenses (the equivalent of 50mm in 35mm photography.) until 1935: attends the American school in Berlin-Schöneberg. After change of residence, attends secondary school in Berlin-Grunewald.

After extensive research, I’ve compiled everything I could find out about Newton and his career into one easy to read post. Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Baron de Meyer, Edward Steichen, William Klein, Weegee, August Sander, George Hurrell and Jacques Henri Lartigue. Working with ModelsHelmut Newton's 1950 portrait of his wife June, modelling a "Hat of the Week" for Myer's Department Store [6] He began as a fashion photographer who pushed the boundaries of what was deemed acceptable at the time for editors, then pushed them even further in his personal work. He also worked in advertising, shooting various campaigns for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and Versace as well as non-fashion brands such as BMW and Absolute Vodka.