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Obituaries - Artworld
Art in America, March, 2004
Helmut Newton, 83, fashion photographer whose works appeared in such magazines as Vogue and Playboy, died Jan. 23 after a car crash in Hollywood. Newton developed a reputation for his provocative images that mingled sexuality with a sense of violence. Re is often compared to Guy Bourdin, who made similarly daring works. Born Helmut Neustadter in Berlin to a family of German Jews, Newton fled Germany in 1938, moving to Singapore, then Australia and eventually France. In a 1996 interview with the online magazine Salon, Newton suggested that his German upbringing and exposure to Nazism informed his esthetic vision. Among the 10 published collections of his work are White Women (1976) and Big Nudes (1982). In 2001, on the occasion of Newton's 80th birthday, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin mounted a major exhibition of his work, which traveled to the Barbican Gallery in London and the ICP in New York. Last year, he donated more than 1,000 of his works to the Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz, which is scheduled to open a national center for photography in Berlin in June.
Sam Tchakalian, 75, San Francisco artist, died Jan. 21 of complications from diabetes. In the '50s, he made heavily textured abstract paintings using crumpled mulberry paper and globs of oil paint. By the mid-'60s, he was producing monochrome paintings by pouring, rolling or brushing layers of paint on horizontal canvases. He was perhaps best known for his large works with thick bands of paint, typically using two or three colors, troweled across the surfaces. He retired from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001, after teaching there for 35 years. He showed regularly with Modernism Gallery in San Francisco, which is planning a comprehensive exhibition of his work for next year.
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