After more than 20 years of successfully presenting the permanent exhibition Helmut Newton’s Private Property on the ground floor of the Museum for Photography, the Helmut Newton Foundation is expanding the concept and radically overhauling the presentation. The core objective – to use this space to illuminate the lives of Helmut Newton and his wife, June – remains. As a transitional step in this transformation, the Helmut Newton Foundation presents a cinematic Intermezzo featuring Helmut Newton in an immersive space.
On the ground floor, eight video projectors cast a film across four screens. The production is partly based on a film portrait created three years ago for a major Newton exhibition at the MOP Foundation in A Coruña, Spain, produced by Profirst International in collaboration with Martin Salvador Studio. This footage is now supplemented by previously unreleased material from various sources, including personal recordings by June Newton recently reviewed and digitized in the foundation’s archives.