Chambre Close

4to. Photographic wrappers. Some light surface scratches. Otherwise fine. Translated from the French into English by Paul Gould. *** Full-page colour photographs by Bettina Rheims with a short story by Serge Bramley. *** The series Chambre Close was Rheims’ first shoot in colour and marked the start of her collaboration with the novelist Serge Bramly, in a work which saw her photographs coupled with the writer’s fiction. “In its form, Chambre Close is a parody of the first pornographic photos – rooms with faded walls, old fashioned wallpaper – yet, in its substance, it endeavours to stage amateur models in poses playing on the eroticism and the confusion between those who are looking and those who are showing themselves.”