{"product_id":"9783836539739","title":"Alice Springs: The Paris Mep Show","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFaces, places, and punk: The Alice Springs portfolio\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her husband – who happened to be world-famous photographer Helmut Newton fell sick with flu on the eve of a pressing deadline in 1970 – it was up to his wife, June, to photograph an advertisement for Gitanes cigarettes. After the barest instruction in lighting and camerawork, \u003cb\u003eJune clicked the shutter on a smoking model and ignited her own career behind the lens\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the pseudonym Alice Springs, June Newton began as a commercial photographer, shooting advertisements for French and international fashion magazines, before exploring \u003cb\u003eportraiture and celebrity via the highlife in Hollywood and lowlife of the L.A. punk scene during the 1980s\u003c\/b\u003e. She became Helmut’s artistic director, collaborating on exhibitions and books as well as developing her own characteristically intense, revealing photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoinciding with a major retrospective at the Helmut Newton Foundation which was shown at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, this TASCHEN collection celebrates Alice Springs’s work with a focus on the \u003cb\u003eglamour and seedy excitement of 1980s Melrose in Los Angeles, as well as some of her most compelling self-portraits and studies of Helmut\u003c\/b\u003e. Throughout, we celebrate Springs’s sensitivity to subjects in composition and her particular skill at capturing the charisma animating a figure or face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eText in English, French, and German\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen America, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055415804144,"sku":"9783836539739","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836539739_p0.jpg?v=1763759247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836539739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}