Rineke Dijkstra

Namnvarianterauktoriserad namnform: Rineke Dijkstra

DatumLevnadsår: 1959 Född: född 1959-06-02

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BiografiBiografi: Dutch photographer and video artist. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam between 1981 and 1986. After studying she worked as a formal portrait photographer until the early 1990s when she began to take her own style of portraits. The Beaches series (1992–6), for which she photograhed adolescents in their bathing costumes on beaches from the Ukraine to the USA gained her international attention; see, for example, Kolbrzreg, Poland, July 26, 1992 (London, Saatchi Gal.) where the model unintentionally echoes Bottecelli’s Venus in her pose. Dijkstra mostly works in series of portraits, capturing her subjects in moments that are both selfconscious and unwittingly revealing. In Julie, February 29, 1994 (see 1997 London exh. cat.), part of a stark series of women photographed with their babies shortly after birth, a mother clutches her newborn baby to her bosom in front of the white walls of a hospital. In 1997 Dijkstra made a series of one-minute videos taken in two night clubs, one in Liverpool and the other in Zaandan, Netherlands. After selecting her models from the clubbers, Dijkstra let them perform as they wanted in front of the camera, as in The Buzz Club, Liverpool, England, March 1, 1997 (see 1997 London exh. cat.). Dijkstra’s portraits differ from those shot by other documentary photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans during the 1990s, both in her use of obviously posed compositions and in the distance that she creates between herself and her models in their often startled, confrontational expressions. Presenting a variety of models ranging from matadors to shop assistants, Dijkstra draws not only on the history of documentary portrait photography represented by August Sander and others, but also on the history of portrait painting as well as on each model’s desire to present his or her own imagined image. (Källa: Oxford Art Online)