Helmut Newton: Self-portrait with wife and models

Abstract

In this article we will try to carry out an exercise of textual analysis of application to the photographic image, following the line of research undertaken by Victor Burgin for the analysis of the same photography by Helmut Newton that we propose here: «When describing the portrait of Newton I will recapitulate a certain history of semiology, the most closely associated with Roland Bmthes, which paves the way for the introduction of the subject of representation in the critical theory of the image, in the early 70's "(Burgin 1991: 49) .