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BETTINA RHEIMS (b.1952)
Lot 78

BETTINA RHEIMS (b.1952)

Traci Lords Smoking a Cigarette in the 'Valentino Room' of the Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, April 1996

Closed13 November 2007

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BETTINA RHEIMS (b.1952)
Traci Lords Smoking a Cigarette in the 'Valentino Room' of the Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, April 1996
oversized chromogenic print
signed, titled, dated and numbered '2/5', 'BR824' in ink on verso
48 x 48in. (121.9 x 121.9cm.)

Specialist note

'Struggling to survive, [runaway, Nora Kuzma] assumed the name Traci Lords and became a Penthouse centerfold. By age fifteen she was a world-famous porn queen drowining in a sea of sex, drugs and lies until the FBI raided her home just days after her eighteenth birthday' (Traci Lords: Underneath it All, book jacket). This portrait was taken almost 10-years from the date of Lords's arrest.

This print is number 2 from the sold-out edition of 5.