Bettina Rheims — TASCHEN (2016 edition)

High gloss, zero innocence. A body staged like a battlefield between glamour and vulnerability, where desire is both weapon and costume. Rheims doesn’t photograph nudity; she photographs the idea of looking — power, shame, seduction, performance. These images feel less like portraits and more like controlled accidents, caught between fashion fantasy and psychological exposure. Beauty here is never passive. It stares back, slightly bored, slightly dangerous.

TECHNICAL SHEET:
Title: Bettina Rheims
Artist / Author: Bettina Rheims
Date: 2016
Edition: TASCHEN reprint edition
Technique / Printing Method: Offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover printed photobook
Dimensions (cm): 24.5 × 31.5 approx.
Pages: 512
Language: English / French / German
Publisher / Editor: TASCHEN, Cologne
ISBN: 978-3-8365-6887-6
Condition: Very good