Editing Helmut Newton (section)

==From 1940: Life in Australia==
Newton was interned by British authorities while in Singapore and was sent to Australia on board the ''[[RMS Queen Mary|Queen Mary]]'', arriving in Sydney on 27 September 1940.<ref name="R4"/> Internees were taken to a camp at [[Tatura]] by train under armed guard. Newton was released from internment in 1942 and briefly worked as a fruit picker in Northern Victoria. In August 1942, he enlisted with the Australian Army and worked as a truck driver. After the war in 1945, he became a British subject, and changed his name to Newton in 1946.

[[File:Helmut Newton 1950. Model June Browne. Myer's Department store contract, Hat of the Week.png|thumb|left|Helmut Newton's 1950 portrait of his wife June, modelling a "hat of the week" for [[Myer|Myer's]] Department Store<ref name="R5"/>]]
 
In 1948, he married actress [[June Browne]], who performed under the stage name June Brunell. Later, she became a successful photographer, under the ironic pseudonym Alice Springs, after [[Alice Springs]], the town in [[Central Australia]].
 
In 1946, Newton set up a studio in fashionable [[Flinders Lane]] in [[Melbourne]] and worked on fashion, theatre and industrial photography in the affluent post-war years.<ref name="R6"/>  In May 1953, he shared his first exhibition with [[Wolfgang Sievers]], a German refugee like himself, who had also served in the same company. The exhibition, "New Visions in Photography", was displayed at the Federal Hotel in [[Collins Street, Melbourne|Collins Street]] and was probably the first presentation of [[New Objectivity]] photography in Australia. Newton went into partnership with [[Henry Talbot (photographer)|Henry Talbot]], a fellow German Jew, who had also been interned at Tatura, and his association with the studio continued even after 1957, when Newton left Australia for [[London]]. The studio was renamed Helmut Newton and Henry Talbot.