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The acclaimed German-born photographer lost control of his Cadillac leaving the Chateau Marmont (where he lived with his wife June) at 11:40 this morning and crashed into a wall across the street. He clipped an Associated Press photographer before hitting the wall. Newton was 83 and may have suffered a heart attack. AP's second lede via CNN.com
5:44 p.m.: For what it's worth, the New York Times has a headline under "National" on its web page. The news isn't mentioned on LATimes.com, even under AP headlines. Google News finds it on 111 web sites around the world, however.
6 p.m.: The LAT got its first mention up, a longer AP story, at 5:54.
Reuters: "Helmut Newton, whose stark, often sadomasochistic portraits of nude women in chains and bonds won him acclaim and revulsion..."
NYT obit: "Helmut Newton, the prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications..."
LAT obit: "Helmut Newton, the renowned photographer who in his 40-year career brought sexual provocation and menace to fashion tableaux that came to be recognized as art..."
If you read the link Kevin provides, you'll find it reported in the LAT, dum dum. Heh.
Skippy
Posted by: skippy at January 23, 2004 10:46 PMUm, I'm not sure being 45 mins slower than other websites on a middlin' local story qualifies as the ultimate in ridiculous. It is being slow to respond, however. It probably also serves to remind that getting staff stories into the print paper remains a higher priority than putting breaking news on the website. The merits of that can be persuasively argued either way, seems to me (though if it has to be - hypothetically - one or the other, I'd side with my paying customers). On the 10 p.m. news, by the way, Newton wasn't thought to be a big enough local story to run in the first 15 minutes on either Ch. 5 or 11.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at January 23, 2004 10:48 PMI was commenting on the LAT being later than the New York Times when they're the paper in town -- when his death happened in the morning...here. "Dum dum"? I haven't been called that since second grade. I think I'm going to tattle on you.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at January 24, 2004 05:48 AMThe main thing about the Helmut Newton story is thank God he didn't kill anyone else. These old drivers should be tested every 6 months, at least.
Posted by: Cathy Seipp at January 24, 2004 11:42 AMHis car crashed at 11:40AM. He was then taken to the hospital. I can't imagine anyone knew he was dead but the paramedics or Drs at the hosptial.
The LAT had the info up within hours, a more thorough story than the NYT, both running AP. It's about a fashion photog. Old. He died. What's the big deal? Allegic to local news? Unaware of who Newton was? Rediculous? Golly, you've got more hyperbole there than the whole Sunday LAT.
The LA Times web site gets beat on everything -- international, national, local. NY Times, Wash Post, CNN, etc., always have better updates, even on LA stories -- most recently the changing body count in the mudslide story. Maybe they don't view their site as one for breaking news (they should), and it shows: They are BAD on breaking news.
Posted by: Len at January 24, 2004 05:27 PMFWIW, I think Helmut Newton is a much bigger deal in NYC circles than in LA. So I'm not surprised that the news broke faster there.
Does anyone here know if it's true he was living at the Chateau Marmont? I thought they lived somewhere near there but not in the hotel.
Posted by: Mr. Ricey at January 24, 2004 06:47 PMFWIW, the LATimes site has a staff of about 15, compared with around 75 for WashPost.
Posted by: Mack Reed at January 24, 2004 09:10 PMSorry for his wife's loss and ours. Great photographer. He was ever young. I don't believe in age gaged by numbers. This man was young and talented because of his youthful and knowledgeable mind.
Posted by: Michele Tanous at February 2, 2004 07:46 AM
of LA Observed
Heh heh...LA Times -- why are they so allergic to reporting stuff that happens in Los Angeles? Weird. Do you think they didn't know who Helmut Newton was? I mean, how ridiculous does it get!?
Posted by: Amy Alkon at January 23, 2004 08:04 PM