A photographer against the grain. An ironic lover of the most extreme glamour, able to bring together fashion, the nude and the fetishes of our time in a way at once superb and dramatic, sarcastic and celebratory: that was Helmut Newton, a great photographer — far greater than one might think — a great portraitist and a great interpreter of fashion, courted by designers as much as by models, actors and producers. Born in Berlin in 1920, his path begins in Weimar Germany and goes on around the world, touching Singapore, Australia and then of course Paris, New York, Monte Carlo, California and London, where he became one of the most established and influential fashion photographers, making images for magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair and Marie Claire that are now iconic. It was a journey studded with encounters — among them the most important woman in his life, June, who was beside him from 1948 — and with famous portraits, of David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini, Sigourney Weaver and Paloma Picasso. This new edition of the volume devoted to him, in a fresh graphic dress, gathers more than sixty unforgettable images to recall and celebrate his elegance, his intelligence and his skill, introduced by a text by Karl Lagerfeld.