Helmut Newton
Portrait of Olga Rodionova, 2001
Vintage C-print
15 × 9 4/5 in, 38 × 25 cm
Private collection
Olga Rodionova (born 25 June 1974) is a Croatian-Russian model, an actress and a TV presenter.
As a model, Rodionova has worked with some of the best fashion photographers in the world, including Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, Terry Richardson, Sante D'Orazio, Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, John Rankin, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Marino Parisotto, Guido Argentini and has graced the covers and pages of Playboy.
Rodionova is known for her promotion of rights and social freedoms in Russia. She was the first social personality in Russia to fight against libel and violation of privacy in the Russian courts. She hosts/takes part in charity actions with Jude Law, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Michelle Rodriguez, Owen Wilson etc. in her home country.
Olga Rodionova's partner is Sergey S. Rodionov, a millionaire, a banker and a publisher. They have a daughter (born in 1996). Olga Rodionova lives in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) since 2013. More on Olga Rodionova
Helmut Newton
Portrait of Olga Radionova, c. 2001
Vintage C-print
15 × 10 in, 38 × 25.4 cm
Private collection
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin,
Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early
age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very
first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on
mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German
photographer, Elsle Simon, known as Yva. Her surreal, multiple exposure
photographs that took in fashion, theater and the nude were to inspire
Newton throughout his career.
On
November 9, 1938, Newton, secured passage to China, where he stopped in
Singapore until 1940 before leaving to Australia and finding work as a truck
driver in the Australian Army.
In 1948,
he married actress June Browne, herself a photographer under the name of Alice
Springs, a name she chose from a map of Australia. High-profile contracts with
Australian Vogue in the 1950’s; British Vogue in 1957-1958; French Vogue in
1961 provided Newton with the exposure that would allow him to stamp his style
on fashion photography over the next 40 years.
Known as
the ‘King of Kink’, Newton’s erotically charged imagery was provocative as it
was masterful in its compositional and narrative direction. Creating highly
charged images layered with voyeuristic, sado-masochist undertexts, Newton was
drawn to empowered woman presenting a potent image of female sexuality in the
60’s and 70’s.
Newton died, aged 83, in 2004 following a major car accident in
Los Angeles. More on Helmut
Newton
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