Helmut Newton Frames from the Edge 1989 A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth century erotic fantasy Hes on the go from L A , to Paris, to Monte Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936 We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work Its not art and its not good taste, he tells students We meet June, his Australian born wife, whom he married in 1948 Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects