Bettina Rheims - Retrospective - 2004

Bettina Rheims rose to international fame in the early 1980s thanks to nude photographs and striking portraits. As a continuation of her legendary volume *Female Trouble* – originally published by Schirmer/Mosel in 1989 and predominantly characterized by black and white – *More Trouble* offers new photographic visions rooted in glamour, beauty, fashion, sex, and seduction, created from the 1990s to the present. The subjects photographed include Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ludivine Sagnier, Emmanuelle Béart, Brooke Shields, Liv Tyler, Isabella Rossellini, and Salma Hayek, to name just a few. This time, however, the images are mainly in color and also include male figures such as Jackie Chan, Michael Douglas, James King, Tupac Shakur, Mickey Rourke, Marilyn Manson, and Emir Kusturica. Once again, Bettina Rheims demonstrates her extraordinary originality, empathy, sense of style, and a painterly sensitivity in erotica.