June Newton, has appointed collector Manfred Heiting director of the Helmut Newton Foundation. As of today, Manfred Heiting will take over the management of the foundation.
Between 1965 – 1982 he was Art Director and later Director of Design at Polaroid International in Amsterdam. In 1984 he joined American Express International as Director of PR and later Executive Publisher and Editorial Director in Frankfurt and Brussels, until 1994.
Since 1975 he has build a world-class encyclopaedic collection on the history of photography – and later photographic books. After transfer of his print collection to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002, he focused on his extensive photographic book collection. His library of about 30.000 books will also go – over time – to the MFAH. He is presently building a data base of photographic books from 1885 – 1980.
He was the co-founder of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (1984); founder of FOAM – Fotomuseum Amsterdam (1999): project director of SPB, to build a National Photographic Center in Berlin (1999 – 2001).
Since 1975 he curated and organized over 50 exhibition a. o. “History of Instant Photography”, 1978; the Photokina cultural exhibitions, Cologne, 1982, 1986 and 2002; organized “Helmut Newton: Work”, at the National Galerie, Berlin, 2000, and most recently “Helmut Newton: White Woman, Sleepless Night, Big Nudes”, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2011 – Newton’s first museum show in the US.
Between 1975 and today he designed, edited or published over 35 photographic monographs, historical overviews and catalogues like “Frantisek Drtikol” (Schirmer/ Mosel, Munich), 1984; “Die Bonner Republik”, 1997 (Rhein. Landesmuseum, Bonn); “Imagining Paradise”, 2004 (George Eastman House/ Steidl, Rochester/ Göttingen); “Deutschland im Fotobuch”, 2011 (Steidl, Göttingen) and “Autopsie I & II: German Photobooks between 1918 – 1945″, 2012/ 2014 (Steidl, Göttingen); as well as a series of photographic master monographs like “Edward Weston”, “Man Ray”, “Paul Outerbridge” a. o., 1998 – 2000 (Taschen, Cologne).
He served on the Photokina Cultural Committee, Cologne (1978 – 1982); on the August Sander Archiv, Cologne (1994 – 2002); as a member of the Board of Fellows, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona (1995 – 2005); as board member of the German Photographic Society (1992 – 1996; as chair of the National Photo Collection at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (1998 – 2000; as board member Fotomuseum Amsterdam (2001 – 2004); as a member of the Supervisory Board of Camera Work AG, Hamburg/ Berlin (2002 – 2004); as Trustee at the George Eastman House, Rochester (2005 – 2009); as member at the J. Paul Getty Research Institute Council, Los Angeles (2007 – 2010); as board member of the Herb Ritts Foundation, Los Angeles (2009 – 2014, as President 2009 – 2010); as founding member at the J. Paul Getty Museum Council, Los Angeles (since 2005).
