Helmut Newton Foundation Jebensstr. 2 D-10623 Berlin Allemagne
It was an explicit wish of Helmut Newton to provide a forum also for other photographers and artists at his Foundation. Upon invitation by June Newton, the American portrait photographer Greg Gorman will present a series of male nudes in a show parallel to the Helmut Newton exhibition. Here in “June’s Room,” we encounter young, trained bodies in black & white prints in various formats, some of them nearly life-sized. For this accompanying exhibition “Men”, Greg Gorman and June Newton selected 25 motifs that were created between 1988 and 2012, for the most part in Gorman’s studio in Los Angeles. Pictured alone or in groups, the young men move before the camera like dancers on an empty stage. Gorman was born in 1949 in Kansas City and currently lives in Los Angeles. He launched his career in photography while still a student in Kansas City, with pictures he took of Jimi Hendrix at a concert in 1968. Later in California, Gorman remained true to show business, and in addition to numerous commercial jobs, photographed primarily actors and musicians. Some of these iconic black & white photographs were used as film posters; others appeared on the covers of CDs or magazines such as LIFE, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.
