Bettina Rheims, artist and art
Born 1952, Birth Paris, France.
The artist lives and works in Paris, France.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Photography,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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In 1978, at the age of 26 Bettina Rheims starts out photographing. After having worked as a model, as journalist and an art dealer, she devotes herself in 1980 solely to photography. She makes a first series of strip-tease artists and acrobats, which are shown 1981 in two personal exhibitions, at the Centre Pompidou and at the Galerie Texbraun in Paris…
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Bettina Rheims’ prime subject is glamour. Not sentiment, not nostalgia, and – though it can be a useful element – not even beauty…
