Book Description Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was born in Berlin. He lived and worked all over the world and was one of the most internationally famous and controversial photographers of his time. His shots of haute couture and the beau monde are instantly recognizable, having appeared in virtually every major magazine in Europe and the United States. From his early work for Vogu...(展开全部)

The biggest and most expensive book production in the 20th century SUMO is a titanic book in every respect: it is a tribute to the twentieth century's most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer. Measuring 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27.5 inches) and weighing approx. 30 kg (66 lb.), the book contains 464 pages, breaking any previous record. SUMO is a truly unique publi...(展开全部)

The photographer: Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential photographers of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later. He first achieved international fame in the 1970's while working principally for French Vogue, and his celebrity and influence grew over the decades. Newton prefe...(展开全部)

What a sketch is for the painter is a Polaroid for the photographer, namely the first formulation of a concept, the raw material of the imagination, as it were. When Helmut Newton published a selection of his Polaroids in Pola Woman in 1992, the subculture called it a stroke of genius. It was the first time that the master let people look directly over his shoulder. We became w...(展开全部)

Through their inimitable mixture of eroticism, subdued elegance and decadent luxury, Newton's pictures reflect in the highest aesthetic quality an obsession with human vanity - from female exhibitionism to male voyeurism. With technical perfection, an extremely detailed style and a relentless directness, Newton staged the neverending psychodrama that contrasts glamour with the...(展开全部)

Karl Barth's monumental work, "Church Dogmatics," is recognized as a landmark in Protestant theology--perhaps the most important work of this century. However, the size range of its fourteen volumes has meant that its content and significance may not be so widely known or appreciated as it deserves. In this concise introduction, Helmut Gollwitzer provides a selection of some of...(展开全部)

Als sich der Kalte Krieg auf seinem Höhepunkt befindet, nimmt auch das Wettrüsten im geteilten Berlin bizarre Formen an: West-Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister Willy Brandt besorgt dem Zoodirektor Heinz-Georg Klös neue Elefanten, damit der seinem Rivalen, dem Ost-Berliner Tierparkdirektor Heinrich Dathe, weiterhin die Stirn bieten kann. Denn wer mehr Elefanten besitzt, hat eine...(展开全部)

Als sich der Kalte Krieg auf seinem Höhepunkt befindet, nimmt auch das Wettrüsten im geteilten Berlin bizarre Formen an: West-Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister Willy Brandt besorgt dem Zoodirektor Heinz-Georg Klös neue Elefanten, damit der seinem Rivalen, dem Ost-Berliner Tierparkdirektor Heinrich Dathe, weiterhin die Stirn bieten kann. Denn wer mehr Elefanten besitzt, hat eine...(展开全部)