Spanning commercial work and artistic series, the retrospective impresses with each turn of the page, as much for the strength of each image as for the thrilling variety of Rheims s subjects and aesthetics. Personally selected and assembled by Rheims, the collection brings together renowned series such as Chambre Close, Héroines, and Rose, c est Paris.

This Rheims retrospective showcases more than 500 photographs from 35 years of daring, often defiant photography. (1998), from Chanel commercials to Gender Studies (2011), her work has shaken up traditional iconography and pushed restlessly at the breaking point between two great human preoccupations: beauty and imperfection. From her series on Pigalle strippers (1980) to her cycle on the life of Jesus in I.N.R.I. Since her first photographs in the late 70s, Bettina Rheims has defied the predictable.