Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Synopsis: Wildly successful photographer Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form over many decades, and his cult status continues long after his tragic death in a Los Angeles car crash in 2004.

Newton worked around the globe, from Singapore to Australia to Paris to Los Angeles, but Weimar Germany was the visual hallmark of his work. Newton's unique and striking way of depicting women has always posed the question: did he empower his subjects or treat them as sexual objects? Through candid interviews with Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, Anna Wintour, Claudia Schiffer, Marianne Faithfull, Hanna Schygulla, Nadja Auermann, and Newton's wife June, this doco captures his legacy and seeks to answer questions about the themes at the core of his life's work - creating provocative and subversive images of women.

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