Helmut Newton RARE PUBLISHED PHOTO "VOGUE"

Description: From world famous fashion ARCHIVE Museum quality Archival Print 30x30 PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL NEGATIVE RARE IMAGE PUBLISHED ....FROM WORLD FAMOUS FASHION ARCHIVE NEW YORK When the legendary Gallaghers Paper Collectibles shuttered its East Village doors in 2008 due to escalating rents, founder Michael Gallagher semiretired to the Catskills with his million-plus library of vintage fashion magazines, books and photography prints. He stored his unparalleled collection of Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Town & Country, Flair and more arcane titles some dating back to the 1860s on a property he dubbed Fashion Farm in Greenville, N.Y. Now Gallaghers is back, reopening today in a sleek new space at 12 Mercer Street. The shop will offer a small sliver of Gallaghers archives, with the rest available by special order. The space is located adjacent to the offices of VFiles, an online social networking site launching in April that is a partnership between V magazine and former V executive editor Julie Anne Quay.This story first appeared in the March 19, 2012 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today. We are in the middle of building VFiles and we were looking for incredible content and Mike has the biggest collection anywhere of fashion magazines and photographs and paraphernalia, said Quay. VFiles brokered a deal to incorporate Gallaghers material onto the new digital site, as well as open the retail space, which revives a New York institution. Gallaghers first opened in the late Eighties and became known for drawing the cream of the fashion world to its basement bunker. Steven Meisel, Anna Sui, John Galliano and Donna Karan were regular customers. As his reputation grew, Gallagher curated entire fashion libraries of magazines and books for the likes of Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Jacobs. He recalled Catherine Deneuve sitting among his aisles, perusing old titles. Along the way, Gallagher a sociable former child actor and model befriended many in the fashion world. The late New York Times fashion editor and Old Navy pitchwoman Carrie Donovan bequeathed much of her library to him, as did Costume Institute curator Richard Martin. He was close to Richard Avedon, Francesco Scavullo and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who gave him reign to dig through their basements and archives. I met everybody. It was a family. There were only, like, 200 people working in fashion back then, recalled Gallagher, who buys continuously at flea markets, estate sales and online. In the light, airy new shop on Mercer Street, there are neat stacks of the usual suspects like international editions of Vogue and Harpers Bazaar from various decades, as well as specialty titles such as Versace: The Magazine, Wet and Actuel. There are also old issues of Spy and a curious magazine called Teens and Boys Outfitters, which dates to 1968. An 1865 issue of Harpers Bazaar, in newspaper format, can be had for about $100. Theyre actually not that rare. Whats rare is the Twenties and the Art Deco years, explained Gallagher, adding that eBay and the Internet have driven up prices. Now theres vicious, vicious competition. Fashion really sells. Biography Born Helmut Neustdter into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton expressed an early interest in photography and in 1936 began working for the German photographer Elsie Simon, who went by the name Yva. After his family fled Germany in 1938, Newton landed in Singapore, where he found work as a photographer. He was interned by authorities in Singapore and sent to Australia. After his release, he served in the Australian army for five years, enabling him to become an Australian citizen. He changed his name to Helmut Newton in 1946.Newton became an iconic fashion photographer recognized for his radical, edgy, and, at times, racy subject matter. Inspired by film noir, Expressionist cinema, S & M, and surrealism, Newtons images are controversial, provocative, and heavily voyeuristic in nature. Newton preferred to work outside the studio and searched for the elaborate decor of turn-of-the-century mansions, elegant villas, or distinguished hotels to stage his models. Newton pushed the boundaries of the fashion industry with his erotically charged often menacing imagery. Feminists criticized Newton as overly suggestive and unnecessarily risqu.Like Norman Parkinson, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, newton became one of the most influential and talented photographers shooting for Vogue. Perhaps his biggest supporter and promoter was his wife June, who established her own career as a photographer under the pseudonym April Springs.Newton's work has has been exhibited worldwide and featured in magazines and numerous mongraphs. The preservation and presentation of his work is managed by the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, which was established in 2003.Rose Mathies

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