{"id":571709,"date":"2026-03-29T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571709\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:40:11","slug":"helmut-newtons-photographs-are-collected-in-a-new-coffee-table-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571709\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmut Newton\u2019s Photographs Are Collected in a New Coffee-Table Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helmut Newton needs no introduction. But we\u2019ll give him one anyway. He was born Helmut Neust\u00e4dter in <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/arts-intel\/cities\/berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berlin<\/a> in 1920 to a Jewish family. His father owned a button factory, which the Nazis took from him in the 1930s. After Kristallnacht, in 1938, Helmut\u2019s parents fled to Argentina while he waited for his passport. Within a month, he was able to hop a ship to China, which ended up in Singapore; the authorities there sent him to Australia, where he enlisted in the army.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, Neust\u00e4dter returned to Melbourne, changed his surname to Newton, set up a photography studio, and married his life partner June Browne, an actress better known by her stage name, Alice Springs. Newton began shooting theater and fashion, and did industrial photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helmut Newton needs no introduction. But we\u2019ll give him one anyway. He was born Helmut Neust\u00e4dter in Berlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[24261,59523,12910,449,458,459,64,63,79354,155168,280667,512,460,280668,134,280669,280670,280671,280672,280673,280674,2022,280675,647,1025,250106,280676,942,280677,27616],"class_list":["post-571709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-alice-springs","tag-andy-warhol","tag-argentina","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-berlin","tag-british-vogue","tag-carolina-de-armas","tag-china","tag-design","tag-elsa-peretti","tag-entertainment","tag-gert-elfering","tag-helmut-neustadter","tag-helmut-newton","tag-helmut-newton-foundation","tag-june-browne","tag-kristallnacht","tag-london","tag-maxims-paris","tag-melbourne","tag-new-york","tag-phaidon","tag-playboy","tag-singapore","tag-the-nazis-took","tag-vogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}