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NEWTON BAR, BERLIN

Situated on Gendarmenmarkt, contestably the most beautiful square in Berlin, this classy bar named after legendary Berlin fashion photographer Helmut Newton, is certainly a place to recommend. The interior of black leather armchairs, oak tables and dark green marble counters and floors is perfectly complimented by the dramatic black and white shots of supermodels in various stages of undress.

Great selection of Single Malt, and Newton Bar's humidors are stocked with a selection of tobacco favorites, including those coveted Cohibas. Newton Bar has a friendly and very professional staff, with comfortable outside sofas, raw and sensual jazz music, and very interesting, shiny and good looking clientèle. The drinks are priced to fit the atmosphere.

Motorcycle parking within throwing distance :)

Newton Bar
Charlottenstraße 57
10117 Berlin-Mitte

Hours:
Sun-Thurs 10am-3am; Fri & Sat 10am-4am

+49(0)30 - 20 29 54 0

info@newton-bar.de
www.newton-bar.de

HELMUT NEWTON - SUMO

"Some people's photography is an art. Not mine.

Art is a dirty word in photography.
All this fine art crap is killing it already."

- Helmut Newton.

"The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to."
- Helmut Newton.

Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential photographers of all time. Born in Berlin, he arrived in Australia in 1940 and married June Brunell (a.k.a. Alice Springs) eight years later.

He first achieved international fame in the 1970's while working principally for French Vogue, and his celebrity and influence grew over the decades. Newton preferred to shoot in streets or interiors, rather than studios. Controversial scenarios, bold lighting, and striking compositions came to form his signature look. Newton always demonstrated a healthy disdain for easy or predictable solutions.

In 1990 he was awarded the Grand Prix National for photography; in 1992 the German government awarded him Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz for services to German culture, and he was appointed Officer des Arts, Lettres et Sciences by S.A.S. Princess Caroline of Monaco.

In 1996, he was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French Minister of Culture at the time.

Following his death in January 2004, Helmut Newton’s position as one of the world’s most celebrated and distinguished fashion photographers is assured. For many, however, he was much more than that. His controversial and innovative portraiture broke down taboos, documenting and shaping society’s changing attitudes to sex and female empowerment.  Indeed author JG Ballard has argued that Newton was in fact nothing less than ‘the world’s greatest visual artist’. His images remain as distinctive, seductive and original as ever.

www.helmutnewton.com

BARDOT - BIKES AND BOATS

Brigitte Bardot grew up in a wealthy, conservative French Catholic family. She was named for her mother's favorite doll, and as a child wore braces on her teeth and glasses to correct astigmatism. Bardot began studying ballet at the age of five, and at 13 she danced alongside Leslie Caron at the Conservatoire Nationale de Danse. At 14, she was photographed for the cover of Elle magazine. At 15, Bardot met her future first ex-husband Roger Vadim, and attempted suicide when her parents refused permission for her to marry until she was 18. They married when she turned 18, and divorced five years later.

"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."

  Brigitte Bardot, 1967.

She moved from modeling to acting, and played a 17-year-old nymphet (at 22) in Vadim's And God Created Woman, a role that made Bardot known internationally. She embodied a natural yet innocent sexuality that was a precursor to the sexual liberation movement of the 1960s. The actress eschewed the Catholic principles of her childhood, saying "It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be."

Long prone to depression, Bardot has attempted suicide multiple times. "I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below." On her 26th birthday she attempted her most publicly known suicide attempt, swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills and slitting her wrists.

Bardot retired from films at 39, to focus on her love of animals and her increasingly odd political activism. She sold her home, her jewels, and other personal effects in 1986 to start the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which works for animal rights across the world. She has been outspoken to the point of causing international offense on the behalf of animals, and once stole a mynah bird on a French street because its owner, whom she beat with an umbrella, was "abusing" it by giving it a hamburger and fries.