About Chloe Des Lysses
Chloë des Lysses, born Nathalie Boët in Toulon, is a French photographer and journalist. She began her career as a pornographic actress in 1993.
In 1993, des Lysses made a few films before settling in Paris, where she filmed two sitcoms for M6, (Caroline and her Friends, a pastiche of Hélène and the Boys) before meeting Gérard Jubert, founder of the magazine L'Éléphant rose, who hired her as a freelancer. In 1996 and 1998, she worked with the photographer Dahmane. She participated as a model in the production of the books Porn Art, prefaced by Gilles Néret and Porn Art 2, and contributed to a special series: Art Press X-Elles, sex by women in 2005.
From 1993 to 2000, she worked as a freelancer for many magazines, obtaining her press card in 1999 after resuming her studies at the École du multimédia de Paris. In 2001, des Lysses was a member of the jury for the first Prix Sade awarded to Catherine Millet.
Des Lysses then launched into photography, without initially abandoning the erotic world. She has taken shots of gonzo pornography and a video that she presents as part of the Journal du hard put online by the site sexystreaming.com. She also produced portraits of entertainment celebrities, notably that of Charlotte Gainsbourg for La Republica XL from July-August 2010.
The group Tanger dedicated a song to her, "Chloë des Lysses" on their album La Mémoire Insoluble.
Works
1) Sade: revised and corrected for girls: treatise on education and punishments, if meritorious (in collaboration with Jean-Claude Baboulin, pref. Jérôme Sans, preface Pierre Lambeye) Paris, Scali, coll. “Love books”, 2006.
2) with Philippe Vuillemin: Sex beasts!: the sexuality of animals explained to humans, Glénat, 2011. (under the pseudonym Lillith Alighieri)
Press articles
1) Open letter to Virginie Despentes on Lincorrect.org.
2) Portfolio published in Gonzaï number 36 special French punk: “the most beautiful nudist photos of the enfant terrible of French photography”.
Photographs
1) The Pimp Cook Book , Grenoble, Glénat (2009). The introduction defines the book as "a look at the relationship that man has with his senses and food. It contains 63 “pimped” recipes.
2) with Vincent Tannieres: La Pizza des grands chefs, Laymon, 2013 — Collection of cooking recipes.
Prefaces and postfaces
Emily Dubberley (translated from English by Delphine Ramasseul), Sensuelles et sans suite: le livre complet des encounters sans suite [“Brief Encounters: the essential guide to casual sex”], Paris, Scali, coll. “Love books: practical”, 2005, 268
Art exhibitions
1) Girls Girls Girls exhibition at the Center for Modern Art in Neuchâtel, where she is credited with around twenty other women. (2005)
(Béatrice Cussol, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Natacha Merritt, Pascale Lafay, Lamia Ziadé, Ornela Vorpsi, Chloë des Lysses, Maria Beatty, Ileana Vicius, Virginie Boursette, Madeleine Berkhemer, Sonia Koumskoff-Raissi, Kiki Seror, Ellen Von Unwerth, Marianne Müller, Catherine Jammes, Ninar Esber, Hsia Fei Chang, and Lyzane Potvin)
2) Exhibition of photographs and paintings Dirty Harry Vol. 1 at 59, rue Rivoli in Paris (2015)
