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HELMUT NEWTON: WORK - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, June & Francoise Marquet. Manfred Heiting, Editor. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 280pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. "Work" is the lovely hardbound catalogue published by Taschen in conjunction with the late, great Helmut Newton's triumphant 2000 eightieth birthday retrospective exhibition held at the Neue Nationalgalerie in his birthplace of Berlin. Curated by his wife June - known professionally as photographer Alice Springs - and edited by Manfred Heiting, this comprehensive document has distilled more than forty years of Newton's ground-breaking fashion editorial work, celebrity portraits, and erotica into nearly three hundred beautifully reproduced images. A most handsome example of the first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Helmut Newton" in blue ink on the title page at a publication event at Los Angeles' Book Soup whose dust jacket shows two unobtrusive short closed tears. 3-8228-5743-2 Inventory Number: 025394