HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)

Big Nude III, Paris, 1980

細節

HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Big Nude III, Paris, 1980
gelatin silver print, printed 1980s
signed, titled, dated, numbered '1/10' in pencil and 'Monte-Carlo' copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the verso)
22¾ x 18¾in. (57.8 x 47.6cm.)

出版

Vogue [Paris], October 1980, pp. 226-227, within an image of the full first series of 'Big Nudes' installed together in a room; Lamarche-Vadel, Artistes, Paris, no.7, January-February 1981, cover, first-known independent publication of this image; Newton, Big Nudes, Schirmer/Mosel, 1990, n.p.; Newton, Pages from the Glossies: Facsimiles 1956-1998, Scalo, 1998, pp. 434-435 (facsimile of original Vogue publication)

拍品專文

'Inspired by the German Police's life-size identity photos of political terrorists, I began in 1980... my most successful series of nudes... The Big Nudes were some of my rare photos taken in a studio. As I never knew in what city or country I would find a suitable model for these pictures, I decided to work on a white background; the model lit with one strobe light... As studios all over the world are more or less alike, this seemed a logical way for me to proceed.' -Helmut Newton, Pages from the Glossies, p. 422