Helmut Newton
Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus, Arles, France, c. 1973
Silver Gelatin Print
20 1/10 × 16 1/10 in, 51.1 × 40.9 cm
Private collection
Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.
She was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl. She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, most notably during this time in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969) and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). She went on to star in Zardoz (1974), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), opposite Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982), Long Live Life (1984), Max, Mon Amour (1986), Angel Heart (1987) and The Wings of the Dove (1997). In 2002 she released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, titled As A Woman.
In the 2000s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon, appearing in his films Under the Sand (2000), Swimming Pool (2003) and Angel (2007). On television, she is known for her role as Evelyn Vogel in Dexter (2013). In 2012 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, both for her performance in the miniseries Restless. Other television roles include work in Broadchurch and London Spy, for the latter of which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. For her performance in the 2015 film 45 Years, she won the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress, the European Film Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2017, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for Hannah.
A four-time César Award nominee, she received an Honorary César in 2001 and France's Legion of Honour in 2002. She was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, and received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards. In 2015, she released her autobiography, which she wrote in French, titled Qui Je Suis, or Who I Am. She later worked on an English translation, which was published in March 2017. More on Charlotte Rampling
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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