Museum #1: Museum für Fotografie

Museum für Fotografie

Jebensstrasse 2, 10623 Berlin

S- & U-Bahn Zoologischer Garten

He caused scandal in Berlin in 1963 for photographing a model dressed as a spy being arrested at the Berlin Wall. His shot for a hosiery billboard, of a model naked bar stockings, was banned in New York in the ‘80s for being too explicit.

German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton was a self-described ‘gun for hire’, who claimed his photographic work was not art, but whose provocative images stylistically and thematically pushed boundaries. In the context of this museum, however, his creative presentations cannot help but be viewed as art, collated as they are under the one roof.

Read my full review of the Helmet Newton Foundation exhibition at the Museum für Fotografie in Civilian: www.civilianglobal.com.