Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton Stiftung, Museum fuer Fotografie, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (8): Helmut Newton’s Polaroids

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Polaroid by Helmut Newton, for American Vogue, Monaco, 1979.

Newton made many small Polaroid images throughout his renowned career as a way to test or experiment with ideas, because all he had at the time were film-cameras. In other words, he could afford to “waste” Polaroids, but not his “work film”. Yes, I know: I made a photograph of a Polaroid made to print and set on display in a museum in Berlin. But there’s something subversive about this digital version existing somewhere in the aether, an image which many will look and pass by, in a similar manner unknowing to them of having seen a physical print somewhere in a museum or gallery.

I made the image above on 25 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/4, ISO3200, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vHs.

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