Photo by Helmut Newton
I was pretty excited to go see Newton and I bought my hard-on along with me. But I lost that pretty quickly as I saw the amount of work he had done which depressed me in its vastness and the quality of his creativity, which was high. Also, still pictures of tits just aren’t that exciting sexually, nothing like a conceptual art action of a pair of tits.
- There was a really slow paced but really exciting video which showed you how he worked with models and he was exacting. He controlled everything. He took a long time to shoot and wore people down into not revealing themselves, but doing exactly what he wanted them to do.
- Idea: don’t let girl piss then take her photos. Even better if she ends up pissing on her clothes. Could be done with a man too. Might cause less controversy.
- There are earthquake indicators or something in all of the museum rooms in Germany.
- Nudity is only one topic. Desire is nigger but has he made it interesting for long enough. Many of his photos are very shallow and the overarching viewpoint is so schizo and so often so adjusted for the purpose of a magazine that he must me considered a minor artist.
- A beautiful girl knows that it is her job to be unattainable. A key apect, or foundational support of her beauty is unattainability. This makes me feel better about the past.
- His personality is disarming. ‘Forceful, but jolly.’ Extremely exacting. No fear. No restraint at all.
- Jodie Foster is the smartest person on earth. Her analysis of Newton is very good. But this is also why he took such a bad photograph of her. He likes simple, big, obvious, womanly, tits, hips, ass, thighs. She’s brains and it didn’t work.
- His wife is pretty awesome. Australian. She helped him a lot and documented his work. Edited his books.
- ‘He doesn’t hear anybody when he is working.’ So he doesn’t hear when someone is telling him he can’t do something. He just keeps on requesting it.
- Coolness is distance. A distance.
- He lived a very very comfortable Parisian life.
- Idea: take fashion photographs with a shit camera but great lighting.
- The bookstore downstairs at the museum was devoted to photography and very comprehensive. It was a little depressing to see s many photographers with books and I have nothing. Also how do you stand out amongst them. I know, by being different. But thinking differently. Most people think that same way. Do I need to isolate myself further?
Posted 11 months ago
