French photographer Bettina Rheims had already worked as a model, a journalist and a gallerist, when, in the late 1970s, she decided to commit herself to her camera. Before long, in 1981, her series of portraits of Pigalle’s strippers and acrobats had brought her a solo show at the Pompidou Centre, and she never looked back. Other famous series of hers include ‘Modern Lovers’ (1989–91), a series of portraits of androgynous youths; ‘Chambre Close’ (1994), for which she convinced ordinary women to pose naked; and ‘I.N.R.I.’, a highly ambitious series depicting the life of Christ. Now, for her monograph for Taschen, Rheims has collected 300 of her best photographs from the last 35 years, mixing up those famous series with intimate pictures of global superstars such as Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer.

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