 Posted by 03:33:58 25.01.2004 http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,231647,00.htmlFamed photographer Helmut Newton dies! LOS ANGELES - Legendary international glamour and fashion photographer Helmut Newton has been killed in a car crash in Hollywood. Mr Newton, 83, was leaving the Chateau Marmont when he lost control of his Cadillac limousine and ploughed into a wall nearby. The deadly crash on Hollywood's famed Sunset Boulevard on Friday brought to an end a spectacular career that made him famous across the globe. Mr Newton was best known for his fashion and nude photography and for his work in top magazines such as French Vogue. Among the beautiful and powerful people he photographed were Paloma Picasso, Pierre Cardin, Naomi Campbell, Jean-Marie Le Pen and Claudia Schiffer. Born in Berlin in 1920 to a well-to-do button manufacturer, he was enrolled in the American School in the German capital but was expelled because he daydreamed of photography instead of focusing on his schoolwork. After leaving school in 1936, the young Helmut worked as an apprentice to top photographer Elsie Simon, known as Yva, a job he held until he was forced to flee after the start of Adolf Hitler's vicious pogroms against German Jews two years later. His parents managed to secure him passage on a ship to China but he stopped off in Singapore, where he got a job at The Straits Times, a job he held for just two weeks. He moved to Australia in 1940, just ahead of the Japanese invasion. After briefly being interned as a German citizen, he joined the Australian army and in 1948 married actress June Brunell. They have been together for more than 50 years. -- AFP, AP ----------------------------------------------- stephanie-seymour.de/images/assorted/archive/calendar_max/images/div_calendar_maxital9501.jpg Replies:
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