Since the early 1980s, Bettina Rheims has been the most sought-after French photographer. From her very beginnings, the female body has been the central focus of her work. Her unusual and provocatvie portrais and nude images each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly caused stirs with projects such as Chambre close , the story of a Paris voyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a documentary on a transsexual; I.N. R. I. , a sequence on the life of Christ, Shanghai , featuring women int he midst of a powerful cultural, e conomic and spiritual evolution, and, most recently, Heroines . This volume is a Best of . . . survey of Bettina Rheims' photographic oeuvre of 30 years.
Since the early 1980s, Bettina Rheims has been the most sought-after French photographer. From her very beginnings, the female body has been the central focus of her work. Her unusual and provocatvie portrais and nude images each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly caused stirs with projects such as Chambre close , the story of a Paris voyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a documentary on a transsexual; I.N. R. I. , a sequence on the life of Christ, Shanghai , featuring women int he midst of a powerful cultural, e conomic and spiritual evolution, and, most recently, Heroines . This volume is a Best of . . . survey of Bettina Rheims' photographic oeuvre of 30 years.