Jenny in My Apartment, Paris, 1978

Details

HELMUT NEWTON
Jenny in My Apartment, Paris, 1978
gelatin silver print, printed 1984
signed by photographer, variously numbered in another hand in pencil in 'Private Property' copyright credit/date stamp on verso
14¼ x 9 3/8in. (36.2 x 24cm.)

Literature

Gibson (ed.), Nude Theory, Lustrum, 1979, p.159, for contact strip including this frame; Newton, Private Property, Schirmer/Mosel, 1989, pl.32.

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Lot Essay

The subject is Jenny Kapitan, photographed in the Newtons' new apartment, rue de l'Abée de l'Epée, Paris.

Newton explains: 'The setting is the studio in my new apartment...It is only recently that my nudes have become very, very naked, even to the point where I sometimes discard shoes...I have the feeling that these pictures represent a big departure for me...Over the last year or so, I've stated to tilt the camera to make diagonal compositions...Around 1936 [when Newton was working as a photographer's apprentice in Berlin] it was quite the thing in fashion and even portraiture.' (Quoted in Nude Theory)

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