![]() In 1948 he married actress June Browne.She later became a successful photographer known as Alice Springs. After the war, in 1945 he became an Australian citizen, and changed his name to Newton in 1946. In April 1942, he enlisted with the Australian Army and worked as a truck driver. He was released from internment in 1942, and briefly worked as a fruit-picker in northern Victoria. ![]() Internees travelled to the camp of Tatura, Victoria by train under armed guard. After arriving in Singapore, Newton was interned by British authorities and was sent to Australia on board the 'Queen Mary'. At Trieste he boarded the 'Conte Rosso' (along with about two hundred others escaping the Nazis) intending to journey to China. He was issued with a passport just after turning 18, and left Germany on 5 December 1938. ‘Kristallnacht’ on 9 November 1938 compelled the family to leave Germany. The increasingly oppressive restrictions placed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws meant that his father lost control of the factory in which he manufactured buttons and buckles he was even briefly interned in a concentration camp. Interested in photography from the age of twelve when he purchased his first camera, he worked for the German photographer Yva (Else Neulander Simon) from 1936. ![]() Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women.īorn to a German-Jewish button-factory owner and an American mother, Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. ![]()
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