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Picture dated 20 May 2002 shows photographer Helmut Newton (L) arriving with his wife Jude at the Palais des festivals in Cannes to attend the screening of Canadian director Atom Egoyan's film "Ararat". Helmut Newton was killed in a car crash on Friday, 23 January 2004, police said. Newton, a fashion photographer whose work appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Elle and Vogue, was best known for his stark, black-and-white nude photos. Newton lost control of his Cadillac while leaving the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood and crashed into a wall across the street, said Officer April Harding, a police spokeswoman. Before hitting the wall, the car brushed an Associated Press photographer who was arriving at the hotel on an unrelated assignment. Newton was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he died a short time later, Harding said. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Olivier Laban-Mattei) FRANCE OUT