Bettina Rheims (Multilingual Edition)

Bettina Rheims (Multilingual Edition)

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<strong>Bettina Is Back</strong><br /> <strong>35 years of daring, defiant photography</strong><br /><br /> Since her first photographs in the late 70s, <strong>Bettina Rheims</strong> has defied the predictable. From her series on Pigalle strippers (1980) to her cycle on the life of Jesus in <em>I.N.R.I.</em> (1998), from Chanel commercials to <em>Gender Studies </em>(2011), her work has shaken up traditional iconography and pushed restlessly at the <strong>breaking point between two great human preoccupations: beauty and imperfection</strong>.<br /><br /> This Rheims retrospective showcases more than 500 photographs from 35 years of daring, often defiant photography. <strong>Personally selected and assembled by Rheims</strong>, the collection brings together renowned series such as <em>Chambre Close</em>, <em>Héroïnes</em>, and <em>Rose, c est Paris</em>. Spanning commercial work and artistic series, the retrospective impresses with each turn of the page, as much for the strength of each image as for the thrilling variety of Rheims s subjects and aesthetics. With equal attention to anonymous subjects cast in the street as to global celebrities including <strong>Kate Moss</strong>, <strong>Madonna</strong>, <strong>Monica Bellucci</strong>, <strong>Claudia Schiffer</strong>, and <strong>Naomi Campbell</strong>, the book showcases Rheims s particular interest in female fragility and strength, and of the magic encounter between model and artist which disrupts codes of so-called eroticism to build up a <strong>new image system for womanhood</strong>.