Chambre Close is the collaboration between the writer Serge Bramly and the photographer Bettina Rheims. The elegant and cultured tone of the confessions of Mister X, an amateur photographer and voyeur who lures models back to shabby hotel rooms to engage in acts of ‘visual adultery’ is contrasted against the clinical detachment and raw intimacy of Rheims colour images.
Rheims is justly renowned for her studies of female nudes. As she herself notes, “I love flesh. I am a photographer of the skin.”
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I really like these shots. As you say there exists a sense of both detachment and intimacy and this juxtaposition works excellently.
I’m off to delve deeper.
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They certainly command attention. I can see the influence of Helmut Newton, though the use of colour adds a sense of rawness. Glad that I lead you to new fields to explore!
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Delightful…
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Thank you…I always try.
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Shadows created on bodies, so very inspiring.
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Thank you… I find these wonderful
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The lighting is everything with these shots – lit any differently and they might be lurid.
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Excellent point and spot on.
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Wow!
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Glad you approve Feather, I am going blind in my search in search for great art work.
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I love your work so it is a true pleasure each time I read it and I mean that 100 percent. You are quite wonderful
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Thank you… I look forward to your opinion on my latest poems and stuff… I have the occasional purple patch now and then
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