Private Property

by Marshall Blonsky

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 need for admiration, self-confidence with the desire for self-presentation, and Eros with Thanatos. Private Property was originally a three-part portfolio containing 45 b&w photographs. It includes Newton's best work from the period 1972-1983 - an exquisite assortment of fashion shots, portraits and erotic motifs which are all based on real location and luxurious lifestyles. The entire sequence of pictures from the Private Property portfolio is included in our book which first appeared in 1989.

Genres: Photography, Art, Nonfiction, Erotica

110 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1989

Reviews

[H]

Quality of work is A+ (some of Helmut Newton's best work is here), but would it have killed the publisher to have sprung for a traditional coffee-table book? As fashion photography royalty, Mr. Newton deserves better than this teensy, flimsy paperback. It's still worth the beg/borrow/steal (as it's sadly out of print), but I'm taking a star off for presentation.

[Alienne Laval]

With Marshall Blonsky, the semiotician and publisher of "On Signs" (that I reviewed earlier).

[Corinne]

A small paper back of the 40 image collection titled Private Property. An introduction by Marshall Blonsky that does justice to the work.

[\tonio]

style is pointed, it seeks to project itself in the world in the manner of a spur,
it disdains, it rebuffs, it thrusts itself into view and hurts those who encounter it

[Alexander]

Prikkelend.

[Kelly Dashiell]

If you like sassy/saucy/nude photography, then this is your man

[Melis Bagatir]

Maybe the small size of the photographs can go with the follow of the text, (or a page number indicating the photograph in question) Other than that, I think Newton's Private Property portfolio is the essence of his work anyway.