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Bettina Rheims has been one of the most acclaimed woman photographers of France since the early 80s, when she first showed her sensational female nudes and portraits. Film stars, actresses and artists, models, friends, country fair acrobats and strippers— known and unknown women have posed in frontof her lens during the past twenty years. Female Trouble, first published in 1989 by Schirmer/Mosel, presents a selection of some one hundred photographs—brilliant studies on womankind mostly in black and white, her favored technique mastered with a unique subtlety. The common denominator of this collection of photographs is Rheims' sensitive and delicate relation with her sitters, revealing an extraordinary originality, empathy, sense of style and feeling for both the manifold facets of femininity and pictorial eroticism. The plates are preceded by an introductory essay by Catherine Deneuve.
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Cedric Andersen
reviewed Female Trouble on January 22, 2009
Female Trouble
Beautifully produced book nearly uniformly black from cover to cover with suggestive and erotic splashes of somewhat lighter tone in the soft-focus and grainy photographs. Here and there are glints of true white: a ring, a paper cup, something perhaps liquid. Each picture invites the observer to enter in, or at least remember when he was in a similar situation himself. The photographic art here is nearly palpable.
Poet Richard Howard's afterward "Beholden for Beholding" (printed on dark grey paper: white would ruin the effect) fits the atmosphere perfectly, setting the work within the larger context of participatory voyeurism and gay sexual desire. "By day we are negligible, by night we are ourselves: so speak the personnel haunting these impermissible images, wherein nothing is product, everything process. These 'shots' are the unacknowledged trajectory of certain events whose sublimity is secured only by their enactment, never by their objectification."
Black...oh so black...swimming at night in the daytime.
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