Bettina Rheims: Female Trouble.BETTINA RHEIMS: FEMALE TROUBLE by Bettina Rheims. Schirmer/Mosel/152 pp./$34.95 (hb). Paris-born photographer Bettina Rheims is well known for her perspective on sexuality and fantasy. Her book Female Trouble features an introduction by French actress Catherine Denueve who describes Rheims' work as "... at the same time masculine and feminine." The majority of the monograph mon·o·graph n. A scholarly piece of writing of essay or book length on a specific, often limited subject. tr.v. mon·o·graphed, mon·o·graph·ing, mon·o·graphs To write a monograph on. is dedicated to sophisticated and erotic erotic /erot·ic/ (e-rot´ik) 1. charged with sexual feeling. 2. pertaining to sexual desire. e·rot·ic adj. 1. Of or concerning sexual love and desire. celebrity portraits. Actresses like Denueve, Julictte Binoche and Sophie Marceau Sophie Marceau /sɔfi maʁso/ (born November 17, 1966) is a French actress. Career Born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu cast their gaze, sustaining the reader's attention throughout the 102 color and black and white plates, presented as either full page or doubletruck spreads. The book, with brief texts in German and English, also contains some of Rheims' earlier work with striptease artists and acrobats from the early 1980s. Although this is not as topical as Rheims' Modern Lovers series from the late 1980s or her more recent INRI INRI abbr. Latin Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews) INRI Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews (the inscription placed over Christ's head during the Crucifixion) [Latin series, Female Trouble is a good example of Rheims' intriguing in·trigue n. 1. a. A secret or underhand scheme; a plot. b. The practice of or involvement in such schemes. 2. A clandestine love affair. v. style. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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