Exhibition

The MOP Foundation is proud to host Helmut Newton – Fact & Fiction, the new exhibition in A Coruña that intertwines the personal and the professional. The exhibition begins with a sequence of Polaroids which give an immediate insight into the way Newton worked. The Polaroids were an important element in helping him build the picture that he had visualised. The display of magazine spreads reminds us that in most cases the pictures Newton was building were intended for the magazine page – Helmut’s primary point of encounter with his audience.

As the show unfolds into a dazzling sequence of images, we realise that we have entered Newton’s world – where we are left to disentangle for ourselves what is fact and what is fiction. This is a world of the imagination, yet the intriguing universe into which we are drawn is staged in contexts we recognise as real. It is a world of hints and allusions – including knowing references to historic artists, among them Manet, Velazquez. and May Ray, to Alfred Hitchcock and to the melodrama of film noir. We are invited to see the world anew through Newton’s exceptional, razor-sharp, and revealing eyes.