Helmut Newton : the king of kinky?
• Amorous Pop Culture
Helmut Newton's widow, Alice Springs, has published a collection of the best of his fashion photography: A Gun for Hire.
Newton was a photographer who never saw the point of not overstating the obvious: in one infamous shoot, he placed a horse's saddle on a beauty posing in riding jodhpurs on a bed on all fours; in another the women sported medical corsets and braces as Cronenbergian sexual accessories. 'I hate good taste,' he once famously remarked. 'It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.'
