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

— Helmut Newton Newsmakers (2002)

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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.

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

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.

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