BETTINA RHEIMS小组


	创建于2006-10-23 组长：SITOU Born in Paris in 1952 Bettina Rheims lives and works in Paris Bettina Rheims became interested in photography in 1978 at the age of 26. After working as a model, a journalist and an art dealer, she devoted herself exclusively to photography in 1980. Her first photographic series portraying strip-tease artists and acrobats was shown 1981 in solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and at the Galerie Texbraun in Paris. Encouraged by this success, she next completed a series of portraits of taxidermy specimens which were exhibited in Paris and New York. During the early 1980s, Bettina Rheims contributed to magazines around the world and shot advertising campaigns for Well and Chanel. She also produced her first fashion editorial series, album covers, film posters and directed her first advertising campaign in 1986. Her first monograph, Female Trouble, featuring portraits of women, was published in 1989 and was accompanied by exhibitions in Germany and Japan. The following year she realized a series of portraits of androgynous teenagers, Modern Lovers, which were shown in France, Great Britain and the United States. Her mythic series Chambre Close, realized between 1990 and 1992 in collaboration with Serge Bramly, garnered immediate acclaim not only in Europe, but around the world. The book has become a bestseller and is regularly reissued. In subsequent years Bettina Rheims' work became known around the world and she is recognized as one of the most important contemporary photographic artists not only in Europe, but also in the United States, Japan, Korea, Australia and Russia. Her status as a leading artistic talent was further demonstrated in 1999 by her series I.N.R.I., an important photographic project depicting main scenes from the Bible and the life of Jesus Christ realized in collaboration with Serge Bramly. The book was published simultaneously in several countries (France, Germany, USA and Japan) and ignited fury in France. The exhibition is still touring museums in Europe. In 2000, Bettina Rheims published X’Mas, a series of photographs of young girls discovering their feminity. Her 2003 monograph Shanghai, realized together with Serge Bramly, was the result of 6 months spent in this vibrant city just opening to Western visitors. Published by Robert Laffont, the work captures the diversity of the city through the images of women of different ages, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Bettina Rheims’ most recent publication More Trouble, released in 2004, retraces ten years of her portrait photography, mostly of famous women. A comprehensive retrospective of Bettina Rheims’ work is currently being exhibited around the world. Initially, the venues include museums in Helsinki, Oslo, Vienna, Düsseldorf and Brussels.