Bettina Rheims: Under the Skin

Bettina Rheims’ 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. Born in Paris in 1952, Rheims was raised in an intellectual and highly artistic environment – her paternal grandfather was a war hero who dined with Captain Dreyfus, while she inherited…