Helmut Newton : Frames from the Edge

Helmut Newton's nude photographs have been called voyeuristic and exploitative, yet are admired for their expession of feminine awareness.

Rather than seeming conscious of a viewer, his subjects appear as though observed by chance.

This video, directed by Adrian Maben, highlights Newton's approach to photography as he completes a series of very different commissions.

Preferring to work alone and using natural lighting wherever possible, Newton achieves effects of candid intimacy that have become his hallmark, and which are compared here by Karl Lagerfeld to the drawings of Henri Matisse.

The film presents Newton as a natural successor to the great "painters of women" of the past.