Alice Springs Photographs ~ Helmut Newton’s Wife ~ at Kestnergesellschaft

artwork: Alice Springs – "Susi Und Lena", Paris 1976 - Upon deciding to use the pseudonym Alice Springs, photographer June Newton (wife of photographer Helmut Newton), did not anticipate or foresee the confusion caused by searching her name in Google images. How could she? In 1970 Helmut Newton caught a bout of influenza and taught his wife June how to use a light meter and his camera so that she could take his place in shooting an advert for the French cigarette brand Gitanes. After the advert the name Alice Springs was created and the rest is history. Taking her pseudonym from Alice Springs, Australia where she was born.


HANNOVER, GERMANY – In a comprehensive show entitled “People”, the Kestnergesellschaft presents around 150 works taken over the past 40 years by the photographer Alice Springs (b. 1923 in Melbourne, proper name June Newton, née June Brown). Using the pseudonym Alice Springs, Helmut Newton’s wife began to develop her own photographic oeuvre in 1970. Although international stars take centre stage in the Kestnergesellschaft show, Alice Springs’ friends and acquaintances also feature centrally. The exhibition is a joint venture in conjunction with the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin. The featured list of artists, actors and musicians photographed by Alice Springs reads like a veritable “Who’s Who” of the international cultural scene on both sides of the Atlantic over the past four decades.

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