Both approached the body as a point of fascination, while also enjoying phenomenally successful careers as fashion photographers. The main focus is on the featured artists works and their craftsmanship across genres, techniques and choice of medium, ranging widely from nude photography to amazing street art. The majority of the works in Undressed come from the ’90s, which was a transformative moment in my career.

By blurring boundaries between fashion, eroticism and art, Mario Testino has unravelled the politics and symbolism of the body throughout his work. The photographs feature the likes of Mick Jagger and Bono, Liz Taylor and Naomi Campbell – many of the same VIPs that Newton portrayed in his work. According to Testino, the idea is to stop viewers from getting distracted by turning them from a voyeur into a participant. Coinciding with an exhibition conceived exclusively for the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, this intimate series explores the notion of undressing in photography as much as it lays Testino's archive bare, probing beyond the photographer's established public image to reveal a deeper understanding of his practice and oeuvre.Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Carine Roitfeld is an influentual fashion journalist, former editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and founder of CR Fashion Book. But Helmut was born on the 31 st of October and I on the 30 th, which means we’re both Scorpios with sex in our heads all the time, and also an untiring energy to work all the time. Coinciding with an exhibition conceived exclusively for the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, this intimate series explores the notion of undressing in photography as much as it lays Testino’s archive bare, probing beyond the photographer’s established public image to reveal a deeper understanding of his practice and oeuvre.

The Helmut Newton Foundation today unveiled largest-scale show to date - Mario Testino's "Undressed" - a photo exhibition featuring a series of images blown up to over 10 feet high. A special highlight are previously unseen photographs shot in the Testino studio, in which an exuberant atmosphere intermingles with the implicit frisson of nudity and where playfully amorous dynamics never slip into the obscene or pornographic. Adobe installs this cookie to allow persistent ID tracking in the 1st party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired. Throughout his career, sexuality (and nudity) have remained integral to his work, something he shares with the late, great Helmut Newton.Both books also follow on from Mario Testino’s towel series, in which the Peruvian photographer captures famous individuals in towels and robes.