The Divine Decadence of Helmut Newton

“My mother always said, ‘If you have any problems, Helmut, don’t tell us, tell the doctor.’ And my father, screwing in his monocle, used to say, ‘My boy, you’ll end up in the gutter.’”

What would Helmut Newton’s parents make of the fact that their only child, for whom they clearly cherished no grand ambitions, is the subject 20 years after his death of not one, but two major exhibitions in Europe this winter? Helmut Newton:…