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At the moment there is a trio of aces. After those dedicated to Peter Lindberg and Steven Meisel. What will be the third exhibition of the foundation created by Marta Ortega, non-executive president of the Inditex group, will bring to the port of La Coruña, between November 18 and May 1, 2024, the work of one of the most influential photographers of all time, the German-Australian Helmut Newton (1920-2004). Controversial even after his death, what is non-negotiable is that Newton brought a new and shocking vision of the female body (his on heels walking in black and white safely towards the camera are already an inseparable part of the iconography of the twentieth century) and gave fashion photography, a genre that he cultivated assiduously in the most prestigious headers, A unique artistic dimension. Marta Ortega herself says about Newton in the Foundation's statement that "his great revolutionary act was to completely change the way women were portrayed in the pages of fashion mastheads. Now it was women who enjoyed design and fashion, the power and splendor of their bodies; elegantly seductive and untouchable women."

Through the camera of who considered himself "a professional voyeur" passed all the who is who of his time. In the exhibition of A Coruña we will be able to see -in addition to a series of videos of the master in full task- fashion and lifestyle photographs that try to collect the essence of the visual language of the artist. Of course, there will be his large nudes, as well as portraits of the likes of Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Margaret Thatcher, Charlotte Rampling, Elsa Perretti, Daryl Hannah, Jerry Hall, Naomi Campbell, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld.

The exhibition is a project that has been carried out in collaboration with the Helmut Newton Foundation and is curated by the British Philippe Garner, one of the world's greatest experiences in photography of the twentieth century; the vice-president of the Helmut Newton Foundation, Matthias Harder, and Tim Jefferies, the famous director of the British gallery Hamiltons, specialized in photography of the middle and end of the last century, and great connoisseur of Newton's work.


That said: essential.

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