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June Newton
June Newton (née Browne, 3 June 1923 – 9 April 2021) was an Australian model, actress, and photographer. As an actress she was known professionally as June Brunel or Brunell and won the Erik Award for Best Actress in 1956. From 1970 onward she worked as a photographer under the pseudonym Alice Springs. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, Interview, Elle and Vogue.
She was the wife of the fashion photographer Helmut Newton.
June Browne was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 3 June 1923 to Alice Maude Browne and Thomas Francis Browne, a vaudevillian. Her parents divorced when she was five years old.
She first met Berlin-born photographer Helmut Newton in 1947 at his studio in Melbourne. At the time, June was working as an actress under the surname Brunell (to avoid confusion with a local actress named June Brown) and had answered an ad for some modelling work at Helmut's studio. The couple were married the following year.
While still acting under the surname Brunell, she won the Erik Kuttner Award for Best Actress in 1956, an award given for excellence in theatre in Melbourne. Although she was finding success in Australia as an actress, Helmut was offered a year-long contract with British Vogue and the couple moved to London in 1957. While there, June found acting work with the BBC. Helmut did not enjoy his time there, and the couple left England.
In the following years, Helmut found work with such publications as Jardin des Modes and Australian Vogue. By 1960, the couple settled in Paris, and Helmut's photographic career flourished.
June's work as a photographer began in 1970 when she stepped in for her husband who had fallen ill. Helmut was scheduled to photograph a model for an ad for Gitanes cigarettes when he came down with the flu. Unable to contact the model to cancel their appointment, Helmut gave his wife a quick lesson in photography and she photographed the model later that same day.
In a 1987 interview with June and her husband for Orange Coast magazine, June said Helmut decided that she should use a different name professionally as a photographer "because he thought one Newton in the family was enough. And if I didn't succeed..." June chose the pseudonym Alice Springs from the Australian town of the same name. She selected the name by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia. Alice Springs did however find success; by 1974, one of her photographs had appeared on the cover of Elle.
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June Newton
June Newton (née Browne, 3 June 1923 – 9 April 2021) was an Australian model, actress, and photographer. As an actress she was known professionally as June Brunel or Brunell and won the Erik Award for Best Actress in 1956. From 1970 onward she worked as a photographer under the pseudonym Alice Springs. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, Interview, Elle and Vogue.
She was the wife of the fashion photographer Helmut Newton.
June Browne was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 3 June 1923 to Alice Maude Browne and Thomas Francis Browne, a vaudevillian. Her parents divorced when she was five years old.
She first met Berlin-born photographer Helmut Newton in 1947 at his studio in Melbourne. At the time, June was working as an actress under the surname Brunell (to avoid confusion with a local actress named June Brown) and had answered an ad for some modelling work at Helmut's studio. The couple were married the following year.
While still acting under the surname Brunell, she won the Erik Kuttner Award for Best Actress in 1956, an award given for excellence in theatre in Melbourne. Although she was finding success in Australia as an actress, Helmut was offered a year-long contract with British Vogue and the couple moved to London in 1957. While there, June found acting work with the BBC. Helmut did not enjoy his time there, and the couple left England.
In the following years, Helmut found work with such publications as Jardin des Modes and Australian Vogue. By 1960, the couple settled in Paris, and Helmut's photographic career flourished.
June's work as a photographer began in 1970 when she stepped in for her husband who had fallen ill. Helmut was scheduled to photograph a model for an ad for Gitanes cigarettes when he came down with the flu. Unable to contact the model to cancel their appointment, Helmut gave his wife a quick lesson in photography and she photographed the model later that same day.
In a 1987 interview with June and her husband for Orange Coast magazine, June said Helmut decided that she should use a different name professionally as a photographer "because he thought one Newton in the family was enough. And if I didn't succeed..." June chose the pseudonym Alice Springs from the Australian town of the same name. She selected the name by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia. Alice Springs did however find success; by 1974, one of her photographs had appeared on the cover of Elle.