Bettina Rheims Retrospective

Since the early 80s, Bettina Rheims has been one of the most sought-after contemporary photographers. She came to fame with unusual portraits of women and female nudes. Both celebrities and unknowns posed for her in stagings of glamour and fame, of fashion, beauty, sex, and seduction. Her subject is the visualization of female eroticism in its sensual, emotional and disquieting varieties, her trademark is a sensitive and delicate, yet provocative approach to the subject. In 2004, the Helsinki City Art Museum organizes the first major retrospective of Bettina Rheims? work, presenting important series, such as Female Trouble, Modern Lovers, The Spies, INRL, and Why did you forsake me? The exhibition will subsequently travel to Oslo, Aarhus, Vienna, Dusseldorf, and Berlin. The publication accompanying the exhibition provides a representative overview of her works between 1979 and 2002.Bramly, Serge is the author of 'Bettina Rheims Retrospective', published 2004 under ISBN 9783829600613 and ISBN 3829600615.