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Ceci n'est pas un livre, ceci n'est pas un film...

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, cafés, 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, Valérie Lemercier, Inès Sastre, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Marnay, Anthony Delon, Rona Hartner, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Azzedine Alaïa, Louise Bourgoin, and Hélèna Noguerra.

Fetishistically boxed up in a retro attaché case are souvenirs of this curious tale: a rose, a mask, an Eiffel Towel statuette (perhaps a murder weapon?), a booklet, a DVD, and of course the photo book itself. Invoke your inner detective: set the case before you, flip open the rusty latches, and devour the evidence....

*Available in a XL-format Collector's Edition of 1,500 copies, each numbered and signed by Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly. Also available in two Art Editions of 100 copies each, with a signed and numbered original print.

About the 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), Heroïnes (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 his former wife Bettina Rheims. His books include Leonardo: The Artist and the Man (1995) and Le Premier Principe (Prix Interallié, 2008).

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Bettina Rheims, Serge Bramly, Rose, c'est Paris

Bettina Rheims, Serge Bramly
Hardcover, booklet, DVD (138 minutes), and further objects in a suitcase, 29 x 40.5 cm (11.4 x 15.9 in.), 332 pages
$ 1000.00

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"Es ist kein Buch, sondern eine Reise. Aber es ist auch keine Reise, sondern eine Erkundung der Mysterien einer Stadt, deren Seele weiblich sein muss. Die für ihre unverschämt erotischen Frauenportraits bekannte Fotografin Bettina Rheims inszeniert in ihrem neuen Werk Paris als eine verwunschene Stadt voll rätselhafter Erotik. ... Da zum Buch auch eine DVD gehört, kann man sich entweder an den gedruckten, wunderschönen Schwarzweiß-Fotografien berauschen oder dem Sog der traumähnlichen Detektivgeschichte als Film verfallen."
SonntagsZeitung, Zürich, Switzerland

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She's Come Undone
New York Times Style Magazine, United States, April 25, 2010

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