Regular visitors of this site should know my obsession to order every picture into every gallery with its own date, photographer, magazine... etc.
 Well, many pictures are very difficult to classify, many times I use get them but I don't know the photographer or the magazine or the date, so the most of times I have to observe her hair, her face or even her clothes to guess the rest of the details and I know that the most of those times I can mistake.
So because it, I feel so glad now, finally I've known the details of one of the oddest (to me) photoshoot-sessions made with Michelle Pfeiffer and besides by one leyend in the photography world: Helmut Newton: who was the late photographer on voyeurism, women as sophisticated animals and David Bowie.
Helmut Newton born Helmut Neustädter (October 31, 1920, Berlin – January 23, 2004, West Hollywood, CA) was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women.
 Newton settled in Paris in 1961 and began extensive work as a fashion photographer. His works appeared in magazines including, most significantly, French Vogue. He established a particular style marked by erotic, stylised scenes, often with sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts. Since 1981 Helmut and his wife June resided in Monte Carlo, but wintered at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in West Hollywood, CA built in '20s (which was often a setting for his photographs).
About the photoshoot session by Newton with Pfeiffer:
Looking for info about the work of Michelle and Helmut together I've found in an interview that appeared in the Los Angeles Reader in 1985 by Tom Christie where he tells "Newton and I spoke in the Chateau Marmont suite he occupies with his wife, June (a.k.a. photographer Alice Springs), following a long photo session for Vanity Fair with actress Michelle Pfeiffer and renowned Hollywood photographer George Hurrell," so now all facts is in order:
The picture above-right (which I've got this weekend and trigger of this news) is the main image done for Vanity, for an article titled "Blonde Ambition" written by Dominick Dunne about the new blonde hopefuls and with pictures of Helmut Newton to Michelle Pfeiffer (as main actress -and first picture and sit beside Richard Donner- in the article), Kim Basinger, Daryl Hannah and Kelly Collins... but the most surprising to me is that the article is dated in April of 1984 (!!), let's remember that Scarface had been released in December of 1983 and Into The Night and Ladyhawke weren't released until Abril of 1985... and in that time Michelle was already there!...
You can read the Vanity Fair article here
 So the rest of pictures made by Newton have to be of the same collection (besides we don't know another session by the phothographer with Pfeiffer): it is a nice photo session with a Michelle into the '30s & '40s style —look at the picure on the right.
Michelle Pfeiffer & George Hurrell by Helmut Newton
According Tom Christie who interviewed Newton for Los Angeles Reader in 1985, tells "Newton and I spoke in the Chateau Marmont suite he occupies with his wife, June (a.k.a. photographer Alice Springs), following a long photo session for Vanity Fair with actress Michelle Pfeiffer and renowned Hollywood photographer George Hurrell".
Well, so now you can prove it looking at the following picture, Michelle on the bed posing with Hurrell for Newton.
About George Hurrell (1904 - 1992), we have to say he was a photographer who made a significant contribution to the image of glamour presented by Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.
So in the same photoshoots session Hurrell photographed Michelle too, and the pics also were made at the Chateau Marmont Hotel.
The rest of pictures
 There are other two pictures which we can considerate they belong this collection perhaps because the aesthetics... the style... although it isn't sure really.
Related Galleries
» Helmut Newton Gallery - April 1984 | Vanity Fair
» George Hurrell Gallery - April 1984
» Vanity Fair | April 1984 article at Magazines |
