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Unclassifiable Rheims: 35 years of daring, defiant photography
Since her first photographs in the late ’70s, Bettina Rheims has defied the predictable. From her series on Pigalle strippers (1980) to her cycle on the life of Jesus inI.N.R.I. (1998), from Chanel commercials to Gender Studies (2011), her work has shaken up traditional iconography and pushed restlessly at thebreaking point between two great human preoccupations: beauty and imperfection.
This Rheims retrospective showcases more than 500 photographs from 35 years of daring, often defiant, photography.Personally selected and assembled by Rheims, the collection juxtaposes renowned series such asChambre Close with many previously unpublished archival pictures and entries from Rheims’s own “diary,” detailing behind-the-scenes work and personal memories.
Spanning commercial work and artistic series, the retrospective impresses with each turn of the page, as much for the vigor 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 such global beauty stars as Kate Moss, Madonna, Monica Bellucci, Claudia Schiffer, andNaomi Campbell, 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 anew image system for womanhood.
Retrospective Bettina Rheims at Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, January 27 to March 27, 2016
Retrospective Bettina Rheims at Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, April 15 to June 12, 2016
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