Alice Springs – Susi Und Lena, Paris 1976
Upon deciding to use the pseudonym Alice Springs, photographer June Newton (wife of photographer Helmut Newton), did not anticipate or foresee the confusion caused by searching her name in google images. How could she? In 1970 Helmut Newton caught a bout of influenza and taught his wife June how to use a light meter and his camera so that she could take his place in shooting an advert for the French cigarette brand Gitanes. After the advert Alice Springs is born and the rest is history. Taking her pseudonym from Alice Springs, Australia where she was born, starts her career as an actress, and ultimately falls in love with Helmut Newton. Fate has taken stranger twists. Visit the ‘June room’ at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin or check out her book published by Taschen.
