CAN YOU FIND HAPPINESS

Since the early 1980s, Bettina Rheims has been the most sought-after Frenchphotographer. From her very beginnings, the female body has been thecentral focus of her work. Her unusual and provocatvie portrais and nudeimages each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly causedstirs with projects such as Chambre close (1992), the story of a Parisvoyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a documentary on a transsexual; I.N.R. I. (1999), a sequence on the life of Christ, Shanghai (2004), featuringwomen int he midst of a powerful cultural, e conomic and spiritualevolution, and, most recently, Heroines (2006). This volume is a Best of .. . survey of Bettina Rheims' photographic oeuvre of 30 years.