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Helmut Newton: Provocateur with a Camera

Helmut Newton's sizzling images of gorgeous, nude women pushed Buttons and spoke to society's fixation on beauty and glamour. Today, they fetch huge sums at auctions.

Judd Tully
From the Print Edition:
Armand Assante, Mar/Apr 2008

Constantiner, who at one point had more than 50 Newton photographs hanging in his Manhattan apartment, began collecting his work in 1990, at prices he now says are equivalent "in this market to a large Starbucks latte." The first acquisition was at Sotheby's New York, where he paid about $8,800 for an enlarged contact sheet print of Self-Portrait with Wife and Models that included 12 variants of the now esteemed image culled from that photo shoot. That work today could fetch $200,000, according to Christie's Garner.

The beauty of Newton's market and his ever-expanding legacy is that even if you can't afford one of the "Big Nudes," there's a rich and downright prolific assortment of other images that radiate the photographer's sexy and crisply stylized aesthetic.

Judd Tully is the editor-at-large of Art & Auction magazine and writes frequently about the international art market and contemporary art trends for a number of publications.

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