Frames from the Edge Page #2

Ninety.

Could you take

your shirt off, please?

You didn't recognize

that picture?

Which one?

Oh, yes!

Of course,

I took that picture.

That's funny.

What are you wearing

under that?

A bra.

Would you mind to...?

You can say no.

If you mind that's too bad.

No, I don't really mind.

Are you sure?

Yes, but it depends,

what are these pictures for?

It's fashion pictures.

All right, but I don't

want to be naked.

Only the torso.

This is for an ad campaign!

For billboards.

I really can't,

I would love to,

but I really

can't show nudity.

All right, then.

All right?

So why don't you take

that off now?

No problem,

if you don't want to.

I think we should

forget about it.

Very good,

thank you.

Goodbye, thanks.

I thought that such

an icon of photography

would be a snob

and everything.

But no,

he was very friendly.

Last year

I was so surprised.

When we were having lunch,

he was talking a lot.

It was very interesting

to listen to him,

there are not many men

with such experience.

So I listened

to him talking.

He said something funny.

A girl was hanging off

a helicopter

and he threw pieces

of red meat into the sea.

So, there were

all these sharks around her,

and he,

he was shooting pictures.

That makes me think of

the picture with the champagne.

You know, the champagne

thrown in the face.

Sometimes he does

stuff like that.

That's not very nice.

No, but there's not many

photographers who would do that.

Girls who want

to work with him know

that they will have to do

that kind of thing.

We are paid for doing this.

Sometimes I have to wear

shoe size 38,

when my real size

is 42, and I have to

run down the street

wearing a 38.

That's even worse!

Because it really hurts.

There is a pretty girl

with a denim jacket.

Would you describe yourself more

as a photographer or an artist?

I repeat what I always say

and what I said yesterday,

"There are two dirty words

in photography.

One is art,

and the other is good taste."

Are your works for sale?

And if yes, for how much?

Not through museums.

Museums are not the kind

of institutions

that sell photographs.

Of course

they are for sale.

For me,

everything is for sale.

It's just a question

of the price !

But... I do this

for a living.

I work because I love it and

because I love to make money.

Could you tell us

an approximate price?

A picture that is

thirty by forty centimeters

is about $1,000, approximately,

but I 'm not quite sure.

$1,000?

Yes, but many imitations are

circulating, well, you know.

I mean copies.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Helmut Newton is one of

the leading and most popular

fashion photographers

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