Helmut Newton Photo Exhibition of Monaco Ballet Dancers Set for Berlin

Previously unexhibited works by photographer Helmut Newton go on display in Berlin on Saturday. The pictures taken by the late German photographer, who was perhaps best known for his provocative and erotic fashion shoots, are part of “Body Performance,” an exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation, and they come from work that Newton did for the Monte Carlo Ballet company between 1985 and 1997. “He hated the idea actually,” recalled Philippe Serieys, who worked as Newton’s assistant between 1982 and 1992 and who now runs his own press agency, ZPO, in Paris; Serieys was in Berlin for the opening of the exhibition and, because he worked on many of them, he introduced the series of pictures. “He told me: ‘My god, I am not a ballet photographer.’ But he didn’t have any choice because the princess asked him.” The princess in question was Caroline of Monaco, now Princess of Hanover, who knew Newton through their mutual friend, Karl Lagerfeld, who also had a home in Monaco at the time. She asked Newton if he could take pictures of the ballet dancers for the company’s catalogues and other promotional publications. “The first time we went there [to shoot the dancers], he didn’t have any

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