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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”184033″]On 4 September 2025, the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin opened its new double exhibition<\/strong>: Newton, Riviera<\/em> and Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS \u00d7 Helmut Newton<\/em><\/a>. In the summer of 2022, the Helmut Newton Foundation\u2019s director Matthias Harder and Guillaume de Sardes co-curated the exhibition Newton, Riviera<\/em> for the historic Villa Sauber in Monte Carlo. For the first time, this late-life home of the Newtons \u2013 and the surrounding region where many of Helmut Newton\u2019s iconic images were created \u2013 took center stage. A selection from that exhibition will now be shown in Berlin, running in parallel with Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS \u00d7 Helmut Newton<\/em><\/a>. This continues the foundation\u2019s focus on Newton\u2019s personal and professional environments, following acclaimed exhibitions such as Hollywood<\/em><\/a> (2022) and Berlin, Berlin<\/em><\/a> (2024\/25).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”819341″]At the turn of the year 1981\/82, Helmut Newton and his wife June relocated from Paris to Monte Carlo. The move marked not only a shift in their private lives, but also a dramatic change in Newton\u2019s photographic settings and perspective. Gone was the effortless elegance of Parisian chic; in its place, Newton turned his lens on the Riviera\u2019s glamorous social scene \u2013 often set against the stark concrete walls of Monaco\u2019s many construction sites. Even the modest garage of their apartment building became a stage for his bold, conceptually sharp fashion stories for magazines and designers, as well as for the enigmatic black-and-white series The Woman on Level 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Newton\u2019s love for the French Riviera, however, ran deeper still. As early as 1964, he and June purchased a small stone house near Ramatuelle, not far from Saint-Tropez. It became both a summer retreat and a space for creative work, as evidenced by black-and-white images shot for Vogue US<\/em> and vibrant color photographs for the Pentax calendar. The exhibition includes a wide range of early prints, including unique vintage and lifetime prints.<\/p>\n

During the 1980s and \u201890s, Newton\u2019s unconventional fashion shoots took him to Cannes and Nice, and later to other parts of the Riviera: Cap d\u2019Antibes, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Menton, and even across the Italian border to Bordighera. Across these locations, he explored his three signature genres \u2013 fashion, portrait, and nude \u2013 with the region\u2019s distinctive light playing a central role. At times, he also captured serene nocturnal seascapes from his Monaco balcony. Similarly atmospheric landscapes emerged during the mid-1990s in Berlin, culminating in his 2001 gallery show Sex and Landscapes<\/em> at Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg in Zurich. A version of the exhibition was also presented at the opening of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin in June 2004, shortly after Newton\u2019s death. Now, more than 20 years later, this new presentation of large-format original prints brings that trajectory full circle.<\/p>\n

Photographs taken along the Riviera appear in nearly all of Newton\u2019s exhibitions and publications \u2013 from White Women<\/em> in 1976 to Yellow Press<\/em> in 2003. The coastline served as a backdrop in countless ways \u2013 sometimes spectacularly, sometimes subtly. His final photo shoot, a fashion series for Vogue Italia<\/em>, also took place on the Monaco coast.<\/p>\n

A companion book titled Newton, Riviera<\/em> was published for the original Monte Carlo exhibition by Gallimard, with the international edition released by Prestel. Both editions are available at the museum bookshop and in bookstores worldwide.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_gallery el_id=”gallery-742947″ type=”carousel” medias=”84261,84263,84265,84267,84269,84271,84273,84275,84277,84279,84281,84283,84285,84287″ carousel_lg=”1″ carousel_md=”1″ carousel_sm=”1″ gutter_size=”2″ carousel_height=”equal” carousel_interval=”0″ carousel_navspeed=”400″ carousel_nav=”yes” carousel_nav_mobile=”yes” carousel_dots=”yes” carousel_dots_mobile=”yes” carousel_dots_inside=”yes” carousel_dot_padding=”2″ stage_padding=”0″ single_overlay_color=”color-jevc” single_overlay_opacity=”10″ single_image_anim=”no” single_padding=”2″ lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_no_tmb=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”184418″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row=”” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”1″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ uncode_shortcode_id=”975298″]Selected Works[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_gallery el_id=”gallery-35773929″ medias=”84158″ explode_albums=”yes” filtering=”yes” filtering_uppercase=”yes” gutter_size=”2″ screen_lg=”1000″ screen_md=”600″ screen_sm=”480″ single_overlay_color=”color-jevc” single_overlay_opacity=”12″ single_image_anim=”no” single_padding=”2″ lbox_caption=”yes” lbox_no_tmb=”yes” filter_all_text=”Alles” uncode_shortcode_id=”146851″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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