Newton, Riviera.

"I love the sun; there's none left in Paris," Helmut Newton is said to have told the Monegasque officer in charge of processing his case. It was 1981, and it was with a touch of humor that the German-born photographer arrived in Monte Carlo after twenty years in Paris.
His move to Monaco was anything but a retreat. In fact, this period was one of the most prolific and, without a doubt, the freest of his career. He experimented with landscapes and developed one of his most personal series, "Yellow Press," strange images of a disturbing glamour, inspired by crime scenes.
Naturally, Monaco offered Newton an original setting for his fashion photographs. It was also there that he took many portraits of beautiful people . They include David Bowie, Michael Cimino, Isabelle Huppert, Paloma Picasso, Robert Evans, etc. He also portrays the dancers of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo and the princely family, notably Princess Caroline, to whom he is close.
The exhibition "Newton, Riviera" reveals, from image to image, a solar Newton casting a gaze that is both ironic and fascinated on an elegant and easy way of life, a world of appearances and pretenses, of which he was both the actor and the privileged witness.