Bettina Rheims
Author of Chambre Close
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Works by Bettina Rheims
Made In Paradise Heroines 1 copy
X-Girls 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Rheims, Bettina
- Legal name
- Rheims, Bettina Caroline Germaine
- Birthdate
- 1952-12-18
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- photographer
journalist
model - Awards and honors
- Grand Prix de la Photographie (1994)
Légion d'Honneur (Commandeur, 2013)
Légion d'Honneur (Officier, 2006)
Grand officier de l'ordre du Mérite (2018) - Relationships
- Rheims, Maurice (father)
Bramly, Serge (collaborator; former spouse) - Short biography
- Rheims, Bettina (b. 1952), French photographer who began in 1978 after working as a model, journalist, and lab assistant. She is extremely versatile, succeeding in fashion, advertising, portraiture, and photojournalism; but made her name with stylish nudes and studies of disconcertingly unprepossessing teenagers (Modern Lovers, 1990), transsexuals (Les Espionnes, 1992) and women posing provocatively in hotel rooms (Chambre Close, 1992). In 1997 she made a controversial series, I.N.R.I., of images recreating the life of Christ, published in 1998 with the writer Serge Bramly. She has received numerous awards.
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Associated Place (for map)
- France
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Famous women - singers and models such as Madonna and Karen Mulder - and anonymous "beauties" pose in provocative outfits, semi-clad or naked in hotel rooms. Chambre Close and Pourquoi m'as-tu abandonnee are being shown for the first time in large format in the Museum of Art in Frankfurt/Main. For a moment it seems as if we are looking through the eyes of a male voyeur. But when we look closer, it becomes clear that we are witnessing a dialogue between women. Women from completely different show more backgrounds - from an employee of the electricity company to a black police inspector - pursue their own erotic fantasies in hotel rooms, observed by Bettina Rheims, a photographer whose viewpoint at the decisive moment is most definitely not male. But this is not as obvious as it seems, for in spite of the frankness of the photographs, they need to be studied with a great deal of attention. show less
by Bettina Rheims, Serge Bramly, Kim Harlow
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1999 by Gina Kehayoff Pub
ISBN-13: 978-3-929078-19-0, ISBN: 3-929078-19-8
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1999 by Gina Kehayoff Pub
ISBN-13: 978-3-929078-19-0, ISBN: 3-929078-19-8
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