"Helmut's Angels" by Helmut Newton, Studio USA, featuring Arielle Burgelin

Vintage Silver Gelatine print, 1988, unique piece

Helmut Newton Studio USA 

Sheet size 25,5 x 20 cm

Framed size 42 x 37 cm

Unique piece, printed for “Playboy" in 1988

Titled, dated and stamped by the editor on reverse and on attached note

Literature (selected)

Playboy: Helmut Newton, Chronicle, 2005, Schirmer Mosel, p. 132.

PLAYBOY Magazine, May 1988

Certain models came to figure prominently in Helmut Newton's oeuvre. These were women who, in Newton’s view, were more than attractive models, standing out as emblems of an empowered sexuality. Among these were Arielle Burgelin from Paris, gracely appearing in this photograph (as well as in a second version available in this shop). Newton once remarked, “I like photographing women who appear to know something of life.”