5/18/2023 0 Comments The best of helmut newton![]() ![]() Later she became a successful photographer under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs (after Alice Springs, the town in Central Australia). In 1948, he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage name June Brunell. After the war in 1945, he became a British subject and changed his name to Newton in 1946. ![]() In August 1942, he enlisted with the Australian Army and worked as a truck driver. ![]() He was released from internment in 1942 and briefly worked as a fruit picker in Northern Victoria. Internees travelled to the camp at Tatura, Victoria by train under armed guard. Newton was interned by British authorities while in Singapore and was sent to Australia on board the Queen Mary, arriving in Sydney on 27 September 1940. After arriving in Singapore, he found he was able to remain there, first briefly as a photographer for the Straits Times and then as a portrait photographer. At Trieste, he boarded the Conte Rosso (along with about 200 others escaping the Nazis), intending to journey to China. He was issued with a passport just after turning 18 and left Germany on 5 December 1938. ![]() The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws meant that his father lost control of the factory in which he manufactured buttons and buckles he was briefly interned in a concentration camp on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938, which finally compelled the family to leave Germany. Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar. ![]()
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