One of the most famous and controversial photographers of the twentieth century.
Royal Palace in Milan
From 24 March to 25 June 2023
Tuesday/Sunday at 10 am – 7:30 pm, Thursday closing at 10:30 pm.
The retrospective retraces the entire production of the great photographer, from his early Berlin to the Polaroids taken in the nineties, illustrating the main genres to which Newton devoted himself throughout his career: fashion, nude and the portrait. The art, especially the paintings of Goya of La Maja desnuda and La Maja vestida inspire the series Naked and Dressed, which mark, along with the Big Nudes, the interest in the nude, which finds manifestation in sculptural nudes by the bursting sexuality.
In the years following the Second World War he began to collaborate with the Playboy magazine then entered the fashion industry, an activity that led him to move to Paris in 1961. His shots, marked by a revolutionary eroticism, earn the covers of magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, GQ, Vanity Fair, Max and Marie Claire. The link with the fashion world is cemented later with the works performed for high fashion houses such as Chanel, Gianni Versace, Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana. His career continued until the fatal accident in 2004.
Organized on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the exhibition by Helmut Newton finally arrives in Milan to tell the great career of a photographer who revolutionized fashion photography and who proposed a new conception of the human body, especially women, not exempt from criticism, which even today allows us to reflect and discuss the use of the body in the media.
Tickets: Full price: 25.00€/Under 18: 21.00€