The Helmut Newton show at the Grand Palais in Paris is just one of a few
recent exhibits honouring the late photographer. (Francois Mori/AP)
Lynn Crosbie: Pop Rocks
Helmut Newton’s girl power, back in Vogue
LYNN CROSBIE
The Globe and Mail
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“There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph,” Newton wrote in the book White Women.
“I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is
sexually much more exciting than a woman who’s completely distant. This
sense of availability I find erotic.” By availability, he meant
eagerness, the kind of salubrious-yet-dirty woman we are seeing in
everything from Girls to the rise of sexy-nasty female comics, to the now infamous Anastasia Steele.
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