The Best of Helmut Newton by Helmut Newton

Internees travelled to the camp at Tatura 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.

Interested in photography from the age of 12 when he purchased his first camera, he worked for the German photographer Yva (Elsie Neuländer Simon) from 1936. Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke- Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin.

Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara 'Claire' (née Marquis) and Max Neustädter, a button factory owner. After his emigration in 1938 he became known as HELMUT NEWTON, one of the most famous photographers worldwide.' Translation: 'At this spot used to stand the birthhouse of HELMUT NEUSTÄDTER (1920–2004), son of Jewish parents. Plaque at his birthhouse in Schöneberg, Berlin.

The Best of Helmut Newton by Helmut Newton