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DISCOUNTS FOR MUSEUM LUDWIG’S “FRIENDS” Artforum, NY - Nov 17, 2008 The star French photographer Bettina Rheims has been charged with plagarism. As Der Standard reports, a French court ruled that the photographer had ...

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Tough Times for French Photographers ARTINFO, NY - Nov 19, 2008 PARIS—The celebrated French photographer Bettina Rheims has been charged with plagiarism and ordered to pay a fine of €30000 ($38000), reports Artforum via ...

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Bettina Rheims: The Book of Olga

by: Catherine Millet
One woman, one photographer, endless possibilities

French photographer Bettina Rheims's sexiest book ever: daring portraits of a gorgeous woman commissioned by her millionaire husband. Limited to 1,000 copies worldwide, each numbered and signed by Bettina Rheims.

Femme fatale Olga Rodionov is a well-known beauty who moves in Moscow s fashion and jet set circles. When her adoring husband, a powerful Russian millionaire, sought to have special portraits made of his wife, he asked none other than Bettina Rheims an unusual request for a photographer of Rheims s stature.

Bettina Rheims: Can You Find Happiness

by: Philippe Dagen
Since th eearly 1980x, 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 provocative portraits and nude images each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly caused stirs with projects such as Chambre close (1992), the story of a Paris voyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a docuemntary ona transsexual,; I.N. R.I (1999), a sequence on the life of Chris, Shanghai (2004), featuring women in the midst of a powerful cultural,e conomic and spiritual evolution, and, most recently, Heroines (2006).

Bettina Rheims: More Trouble

by: Bettina Rheims
Seeing Bettina Rheims' first collection of color photos was as revelatory as seeing those of Helmut Newton in 'White Women' some 30 years ago (my Italian wife was so infuriated by his work that she tore the dust jacket in half the instant she saw it). I would hardly call Ms. Rheims' new collection erotic in the same way. Her work seems much less obvious; most of the work tends toward the vaguely suggestive, in the sense of stimulating one's imagination without stirring one in other ways, rather like viewing Titian's many varieties of Venus, rather than the concupiescient versions of Cranach, but it is similarly artificial inasmuch as it appears to be the result of careful planning and posing, if not editing, with a few possible exceptions.

Bettina Rheims: Retrospective

Starting in 1979 with Female Trouble and going all the way to 2002 with Shanghai, this softcover retrospective covers twelve different periods and bodies of work from Ms. Rheims. Born in Paris in 1952, Bettina gained fame with the publication of her nude photos of stripper in 1980 in the exhibition called Egoïste. From there she went on work with numerous high profile magazines and publishers and became well known for her work with celebrities. But through it all she retained her original focus on photography as an artistic medium.

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