Bettina Rheims

Catalogue note

Rheims personally assembled this extensive career retrospective from roughly 35 years of work, with more than 500 photographs, diary/archive material and major series including Chambre Close, Héroïnes, I.N.R.I., Gender Studies and Rose, c’est Paris.

Credit / attribution note: Pagination differs by catalogue convention at roughly 595/598 pages; retain the discrepancy rather than asserting false precision.; The unusually thin printed dust jacket is fragile; extensive superficial jacket wear must be graded separately from the exceptionally clean underlying book.

Edition / bibliographic note: 2016 large-format trade first edition, distinct from the signed Collector’s Edition and later reduced/revised formats. Associated with Rheims’s 2016 Maison Européenne de la Photographie exhibition.

Condition note: Exceptionally fragile thin paper jacket shows extensive superficial rubbing/scratching, edge wear and whitening, especially on the red rear. Underlying cream/white hardcover and sampled interiors are Near Fine+.

Preserved discrepancies / uncertainties: Pagination differs by catalogue convention at roughly 595/598 pages; retain the discrepancy rather than asserting false precision. | The unusually thin printed dust jacket is fragile; extensive superficial jacket wear must be graded separately from the exceptionally clean underlying book.

Research status: Core ISBN, TASCHEN attribution and 2016 edition data independently revalidated 15 Aug 2026. External catalogues commonly report 598 pages while the physical copy's final numbered page was recorded as 595; the discrepancy remains explicit rather than being collapsed.

Legacy record ID: 008