03/09/2025
We couldn’t be more thrilled to reopen our doors again on the occasion of tomorrow’s big opening of our new double exhibition “Newton, Riviera” and “Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS x Helmut Newton” at 7 pm / no rsvp nor ticket needed.
“Newton, Riviera” celebrates the iconic landscapes of southern France in Helmut Newton’s photography, as they served as backdrops for some of his most famous images. Across the French Riviera he explored his three signature genres – fashion, portrait, and n**e – with the region’s distinctive light playing a central role. His love for the Riviera was also represented in his and June Newton’s move from Paris to Monte Carlo in 1981/82 and their summer home and creative space near Saint-Tropez. The exhibition includes a wide range of early prints, including unique vintage and lifetime prints.
“Dialogues” on the other hand, presents a playful visual experiment, in collaboration with the Collection FOTOGRAFIS of the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien. It comprises more than 60 diptychs and brings selected photographs from the Viennese collection into dialogue with works by Helmut Newton from the foundation’s own archive. These pairings between Newton and key figures from the photographic canon of the 19th and 20th centuries like Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Margaret Bourke-White are sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, but always unexpected. In addition, they have never been presented together before.
Helmut Newton, Untitled, Saint-Tropez 1975 © Helmut Newton Foundation.
