Overview
"Ceci n'est pas un livre, ceci n'est pas un film...This title includes urrealist visions, confused identities, obsession, fetish and seething desire. Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly's ""Rose, c'est Paris"" is both a photographic monograph and a feature-length film on DVD. This extraordinary work of art, in two different but interlocking and complimentary formats, defies easy categorization. For in this multi-layered opus of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of surrealist visions, confused identities, artistic phantoms, unseen manipulation, obsession, fetish, and seething desire. Equal parts erotica, fashion shoot, art monograph, metaphysical mystery, social and cultural archaeology of the French capital, and neo-noir arthouse film - ""Rose, c'est Paris"" is the steamy tale of twin sisters, known only as B and Rose, and a third principal - the city itself. An abduction leads to a detective story that unfolds in the streets, cafes, cabarets, museums, abandoned factories, and grand hotels of Paris. What happened to the missing sister? Was there a plot? Was she really kidnapped? Is she alive or dead? Is it in fact a case of mistaken identity? Rheims and Bramly create a series of extraordinary tableaux suggesting all these possibilities and many more, featuring a host of celebrity figures including Naomi Campbell, Michelle Yeoh, Monica Bellucci, Charlotte Rampling, Valerie Lemercier, Ines Sastre, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Marnay, Anthony Delon, Rona Hartner, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Azzedine Alaia, Louise Bourgoin, and Helena Noguerra."
Full Product Details
Author: Bettina Rheims ,
Serge Bramly
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Dimensions:
Width: 25.50cm
, Height: 3.70cm
, Length: 35.70cm
Weight: 0.300kg
ISBN: 9783836527859
ISBN 10: 3836527855
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 25 February 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Language: German, French, English
Author Information
"Artists: French artist Bettina Rheims produced numerous major photographic series, which have been exhibited all over the world. Her books include ""Female Trouble ""(1989), ""Modern Lovers ""(1990), ""Chambre Close"" (1994), ""I.N.R.I. ""(1998), ""X'Mas ""(2000), ""Shanghai ""(2003), ""Heroines"" (2007), and ""The Book of Olga ""(2008 for TASCHEN). Serge Bramly is an artist, writer and essayist and frequently collaborates on artistic and photographic projects with Bettina Rheims. His books include ""Leonardo: The Artist and the Man"" (1995) and ""Le Premier Principe"" (Prix Interallie, 2008)."
