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There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

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Helmut Newton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 31
Died: 2004
Died: January 23
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Photojournalist
Berlin
Germany
Helmut Neustädter
Helmut Neustaedter
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I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.
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In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
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Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
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In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
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I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
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The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
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I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
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There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. 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.
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Genius and taste don't go together.
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It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
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I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago. And she replied: But I'm also three weeks older.
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My women are always victorious.
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I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
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I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.
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I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
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The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
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It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
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Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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