Peculiar encounters, curious radio transmissions, and unexplained coincidences became the norms of my childhood. Mysterious strangers would show up at our apartment late at night only to depart before dawn without saying a word to anyone other than my father. Family members were often the unwitting participants in indecipherable events that left us with many more questions than answers. My father led two lives that rarely intersected. The book will be published by the Blow Up Press of Warsaw, Poland in early October. The Need to Know, a photo book, is my exploration of the meager details that emerged from brief and cryptic conversations with my father and my curiosity about Cold War espionage and its impact upon my family at the time. Air Force and sent agents into East Germany and elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain in the early 1960s. Bilingual in German and English, he worked for the U.S. This iconic book of photographs brings together the images from this movement, experiencing the light and dark of care and parenthood, the beauty of close-up details, love and hardship, and most importantly, the personal poetic truths of these mamas and artists. The visual movement centres around the “mama gaze”, an introspective look at home and care by female and non-binary visual artists. He began contributing fashion photographs to French Vogue, the magazine that was to make his career for a quarter of a century.The Eye Mama book is a photographic portfolio showcasing the mama narrative and the mama gaze, what female and non-binary photographers see when they look at, and into the home.īased on the Eye Mama Project, a photography platform sharing a curated feed by photographers worldwide who identify as mamas, the Eye Mama book brings together more than 150 images to render what is so often invisible―caregiving, mothering, family and the post-motherhood self― visible.Įye mama was created by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and photographer Karni Arieli during the pandemic, when everyone around the world was in lockdown and spending more time in the home, often consumed by caregiving. Newton set up a small photo studio in Melbourne and rapidly gained popularity and recognition. Helmut then joined the Australian army and soon after married June Browne, with whom he would stay with for 50 years – until his death in 2004. Around this time Newton became romantically involved with an older woman, who took him traveling around the British colony before he eventually settled in Australia. Newton’s parents secured him a place on a ship to China where he worked for the Straits Times newspaper for just two weeks. Newton then undertook an apprenticeship with photographer Elsie Simon but was forced to flee because of the Nazi Regime. He was expelled from school when his fascination with photography caused him to underachieve. Helmut Newton was the son of a wealthy button-manufacturer and had a privileged childhood. Helmut Newton was a German-Australian Photographer.
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