Skip to content

Since the commercialization and banality of editorial magazine pages have made this work uninteresting, advertising has become an increasingly important part of my work.

— Helmut Newton

Another quote →

More quotes by Helmut Newton

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Newsmakers (2002)

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous.

Photo (2005)

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos — and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them — that is interesting.

Growing up, I was surrounded by Nazi imagery, like everybody in Germany, and for a boy obsessed with photography it left an indelible impression on me.

All Helmut Newton quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Helmut Newton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.