Photostory: HOLLYWOOD exhibition at Helmut Newton Foundation photographic story of 100 years of Hollywood

On June 2, 2022, the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin has opened a new exhibition, “HOLLYWOOD,” featuring works by Eve Arnold, Anton Corbijn, Philip – Lorca diCorcia, Michael Dressel, George Hoyningen – Huene, Jens Liebchen, Ruth Harriet Louise, Inge Morath, Helmut Newton, Steve Schapiro, Julius Shulman, Alice Springs, and Larry Sultan. The glass display cases will also feature photographs by George Hurrell and publications by Annie Leibovitz and Ed Ruscha. 

Helmut Newton is the starting point and reference for this group exhibition.. His photographic works often include references to film and even quote specific scenes, such as Alfred Hitchcock and the French Nouvelle Vague. Beginning in the 1960s, some of his fashion photographs seem cinematic in their staging, and since the 1970s, some of his portraits look like artistic film stills. In the 1980s and 1990s, Newton photographed actors at the Cannes Film Festival and fashion on the Croisette. In addition to Newton’s photographs, the new group exhibition features 13 photographers and their interpretations of Hollywood, presented as usual in larger groups of works. The main space of the exhibition is devoted to the medium of film and the Hollywood system. It features portraits of actors from the early years of Hollywood by Ruth Harriet Louise and George Hoyningen – Huene, as well as later film stills and set photos by Steve Schapiro and several Magnum photographers, including Eve Arnold and Inge Morath, who documented the production of John Huston’s The Misfits in 1960.

[based on the press release]