April 2012. media: gel pen on paper
While in Berlin back in early April, I took a visit to the Museum für Fotografie where the Helmut Newton Foundation is also located. By chance, the museum was exhibiting Helmut Newton’s Polaroids (unless this is all year round). I was quite excited to see them in person and the many memorabilia of the late photographer. Photographs weren’t allowed inside the galleries, so I made these quick sketches and took notes as I went.
I can reference quite a few artwork in today’s popular culture that can reference back to some of Newton’s Polaroids. It’s amazing how a single man can inspire so many and, I’m sure, indefinitely. I left feeling reinvigorated after the visit.
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