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Laid Bare: The Enduring Legacy of Helmut Newton’s ‘Sumo’

  • sharpmagazinemebronzeAuthor: sharpmagazineme Publish date: Tuesday، 18 January 2022
Laid Bare: The Enduring Legacy of Helmut Newton’s ‘Sumo’
If
the notional weight of a soul is 21 grams, as a physician once attempted to quantify, the soul of Helmut Newton, the German-born photographer who rose to fame and notoriety in the 1970s, weighs in at a hefty 30 kilos. That’s the weight of art publisher Taschen’s monumental Helmut Newton: Sumo. The colossal 1999 monograph of the groundbreaking portrait and fashion photographer (1920-2004) was an extraordinarily ambitious publishing venture, and remains in several ways a cultural

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