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Bettina (1952). French photographer. After ending her career as a model, she opened with partners a gallery for contemporary art in Paris and, in 1978, she entered the field of photography, doing pictures for album covers, celebrity portraits, movie posters, and coverage for the Sygma agency. She then devoted herself to fashion photography, publishing her work in Egoiste, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Globe. Her creative work focused especially on female nudes: her women were young, cheerful, a little mysterious, and intentionally provocative. Among her creatons were Female Trouble (1991), a project in which it is imagined that the protagonist is a seductress who photographs in the nude the women that she conquers, Femmes Fatales (1999) and, more recently, in 2002, Morceaux Choisis, a project commissioned by the English fashion magazine Delicae Vitae and published by Steidt in a small book that describes a lesbian love affair. In 1987, l’Espace photographique de la ville de Paris held a major retrospective of her work.