Vogue Italiaのインスタグラム(vogueitalia) - 10月2日 21時03分

Helmut Newton, Liz Taylor, Los Angeles 1985.

The magazines love portraits like this one of Liz Taylor. This is how many fans imagine their Hollywood favorites to be: a bit stylized perhaps, but beautifully dressed in a luxurious setting. Helmut Newton satisfied these wishes perfectly. In this image, Liz Taylor is shown in her garden in Los Angeles, reclining elegantly on a padded, metal chaise lounge, a white fur coat is draped over the back of the chair. Her chin tilts up, giving her expression a touch of arrogance. In 1985, the 53-year-old Oscar-winning actress could look back on a four-decade career in Hollywood. At the time of the photograph, though, she was rarely working in the movies. Instead, she used her celebrity status to support AIDS research, among other humanitarian activities.
And so Helmut Newton shows us Taylor as a film star from bygone days, looking somewhat tired and bored with money and fame. She appears in a much different light, and much less approachable, than Catherine Deneuve in Paris, for example. The gesture of her right hand and the general style of this celebrity shot seem somewhat old-fashioned, like a scene from the grand old days of 1930s Hollywood. Yet her presence in front of the camera remains uncontested, and transforms even a simple garden scene into an almost classical stage situation.
Newton portrayed Liz Taylor several times on commission for magazines. Only two years later, his even better-known color portrait of her served on the cover of his book Portraits. There she stands against the wall of the pool at her estate in Bel Air, with a presumably stuffed green parrot perched on her right hand, her bare shoulders above the water, her wet hair slicked back, with red lipstick and light make-up, wearing a diamond necklace and large earrings to match. The surface of the water doubles her perfect face and precious jewelry, as if a reflection of her acting success. At the edge of the pool behind her is a director’s chair with “Elizabeth Taylor” embroidered on it – more staging and star cult are hardly possible.

Vogue Italia’s takeover by Matthias Harder, director of the @HelmutNewtonFoundation.

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