If you came across some of her photos online and didn't already know that Bettina Rheims was a highly respected portrait and fashion editorial photographer, you might think they were particularly artsy examples from some Euro high-gloss glamour porn studio like Hegre or Domai. But they're fine art, as evidenced by the fact that many of them are featured in a current retrospective exhibition of the photographer's work currently on view at the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon. Which we suppose means you're allowed to feel less like a perv for looking at them. Ain't art great?

· Bettina Rheims Gallery (art-forum.org, via sexblo.gs)
· "Rétrospective Bettina Rheims au Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon" (exhibition info and images @ photosapiens.com)
· Order: "Bettina Rheims Retrospective" (Amazon)

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