Photos © Ruud Leeuw
BERLIN, GERMANY |
Photos © Ruud Leeuw
In recent years I had twice made a planning what to visit in Berlin, but Corona delayed these plans. The 2nd time it could have been done, but the restrictions in Germany were less relaxed than ours and not always clear. Since my wife had no interest in the things I wanted to see in Berlin, I went with my son, who is also a keen photographer and collector of (photo) books. Since he'd been to Berlin before, I also had a guide to show me the ropes of the excellent U-bahn
system. PAGE ONE B&W | PAGE TWO URBAN ART | PAGE THREE EXHIBITIONS | PAGE FOUR VARIOUS |
HELMUT NEWTON SMB FOTOMUSEUM
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Newton was born in Berlin. His family was Jewish. The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws meant that his father lost control of the factory in which he manufactured buttons and buckles; he was briefly interned in a concentration camp on Kristallnacht, 09Nov1938, which finally compelled the family to leave Germany. Newton's parents fled to Argentina. Newton was issued with a passport just after turning 18 and left Germany on 05Dec1938. At Trieste, he boarded the Conte Rosso (along with about 200 others escaping the Nazis), intending to journey to China. After arriving in Singapore, Newton found he was able to remain there, first briefly as a photographer for the Straits Times and then as a portrait photographer. [¬ Wikipedia] |
From 1940: Life in Australia. In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage name June Brunell. Later she became a successful photographer under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs (after Alice Springs, the town in Central Australia). In 1946, Newton set up a studio in fashionable Flinders Lane in Melbourne and worked on fashion, theatre and industrial photography in the affluent postwar years.[7] He shared his first joint exhibition in May 1953 with Wolfgang Sievers, a German refugee like himself, who had also served in the same company. [¬ Wikipedia] |
It's a game I play called LOOK!
He won a 12-month contract with British Vogue and left for London in February 1957. Newton left the magazine before the end of his contract and went to Paris, where he worked for French and German magazines. Newton and his wife finally settled in Paris in 1961 and the work continued as a fashion photographer. His images appeared in magazines including the French edition of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. He established a particular style marked by erotic, stylised scenes, often with sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts. Newton shot a number of pictorials for Playboy, including pictorials of Nastassja Kinski and Kristine DeBell. In his later life, Newton lived in both Monte Carlo and Los Angeles, California where he spent winters at the Chateau Marmont, which he had done every year since 1957. |
Early days of photography, 1861-1865 "widespread use of photography during American Civil War".
In 1913 the small and easily portable
Leica camera appeared on the market.
Photography versus propaganda
Shocking if not outright disturbing photographs from WW2.
Photography during the Holocaust. 'This exhibit presents a critical examination of documentation through the
camera lens, focussing on the circumstance of the photograph and the worldview pf the photographer, while
referring to the Jewish' photographers' diffe
rent and unique viewpoints as direct victims of the Holocaust.'
Liberation of the Camps - Function and Distribution.
So glad we stumbled on this exhibition, very informative and a monument in documentation.
Alas, the fotomuseum has no restaurant or coffee bar, but it did have an impressive bookshop!
URBAN NATION Something high on my short for visits: Urban Nation, museum for modern contemporary art. After many years of planning and preparation, the time had finally came on 22Sep2017: The URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART in Berlin was officially opened to visitors for the first time.
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LONELINESS and other false friends
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CAMERA WORKS The villa in which 'Camera Work' is housed is situated a bit from the road, a grand place. Work by Russell James was on display, nice to take it into our stride.
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GERMAN SPY MUSEUM
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Signed by..
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Hardware to (de-)coding
George Blake, fled to Russia and 'enjoyed' a life in exile.
