Bettina Rheims - Shanghai - 2003

Magnificent large book by Bettina Rheims,

Editions Robert Laffont 2003
34x30 cm . 3kg

The sophisticated and refined vision of Bettina Rheims captures and tells the story of the Far Eastern metropolis, Shanghai. Bettina Rheims visits Shanghai capturing the bodies or faces of women from all walks of life and all walks of life: dancer, abbess, walker, high school student, neighborhood supervisor, actress, etc. This book, designed by Bettina Rheims, is in itself a luxurious invitation to an erotic journey, a perfect setting for refined and subtle photographs, like the beauty of Shanghai.

Bettina Rheims was successively a model, journalist and gallery owner before devoting herself to photography. In 1978, a first series of naked strippers made her known. Subsequently, she also produced portraits of personalities and actresses for numerous magazines, in France, Europe and New York, and shot advertising films. She was the winner of the Grand Prix de la Photographie de la Ville de Paris in 1994.