Like many fashion photographers, Bettina Rheims has pursued projects which explore her personal notions of individual beauty, rather than that dictated by magazines and advertising agencies. In her series 'Modern Lovers', Rheims subverts fashionable ideals of beauty by portraying the androgyny of young men and women. This publication includes a series of black and white photographs of a diverse range of young people that examined gender, androgyny, beauty and objectification.