Helmut Newton created a world as coherent as any novelist or as arresting as any visionary painter. Astoundingly, he built this world with great success within the confnes of fashion photography. From inside this soft, sensual and humorous tableaux, he creates a place inhabited by larger-than-life women who dominate their domestic arenas with varying degrees of fetish. In the oversized contact sheet entitled Self Portrait with Wife and Models, we are privileged to witness the creation of one of these tiny utopias: the master and his muse, exposure of naked skin, the repetition and rhythm of curves and spikey heels, and finally, the realisation that everyone in the image has become the model. How superbly Newtonian.