Partial views of women: legs, stockings, legs again, high heels, the angular contours of shop counters and truncated views of luxurious floors; these clues, with a few seductive titles placed above the photographs, suggest that Le Bonheur des femmes is concerned not only with images but with a power of seduction at work in every image culture, its twenty-four images framed at the level of the genitals deploying a strategy of subliminal effect.