Karen Mulder wearing a very small Chanel bra 📸 See more of Bettina Rheims' work here:
’ teasingly sexual photographs of women have been featured on the pages of countless magazines and books over the last 35 years. But before she became known for her lascivious work, Rheims was just a girl who liked to fill entire notebooks with lists of names and words.
Her first series of Pigalle strippers was snapped up by the Centre Pompidou in 1981, and Rheims has challenged the predictable ever since. From her early photographs – the first in colour – of naked women locked up in hotel rooms in, portraits of international beauty and celebrity, Chanel commercials and androgynous reflections in, Rheims’ libidinous work has radicalised conventional iconography and pushed the stereotypical boundaries of beauty and acceptance.
“I started taking pictures when I was in school – we had this photography club and that was the only thing that interested me. Then I forgot about it for a while, I moved to New York, became a model. But I felt like I wasn’t great at any of the things I was doing, I always had one leg in and one leg out of everything. And then I met Serge [Bramly]. He said that there had to be something in life for everyone, so I had to find my thing in life.
That hit me one day when I was doing a casting and this incredibly feminine woman walked into the studio. Kim was wearing high heels and had an incredible hairdo and I was like ‘This is androgyny, what are you doing here?’ She sat down and didn’t speak but she was smiling at me – I thought she was deaf. I told her she could leave her picture and that we would have called her – and that’s when she told me she wasn’t a woman.
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