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Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
Dijkstra attended the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986. She then spent a few years working commercially, taking corporate portraits and images for annual reports.
Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers, from the Beach Portraits of 1992 and on, to the video installation Buzzclub/Mysteryworld (1996-1997), Tiergarten Series (1998-2000), Israeli soldiers (1999-2000), and the single-subject portraits in serial transition: Almerisa (1994-2005), Shany (2001-2003), Olivier (2000-2003), and Park Portraits (2005-2006). Her subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background. This compositional style is perhaps most notable in her beach portraits, which generally feature one or more adolescents against a seascape. This style is again seen in her studies of women who have just given birth.
Today we're going to do another one photo deep dive. This is a new show were doing where we take one photography and completely immerse ourselves in the influence, composition and significance of the picture. In this video we're going to have a look at Rineke Dijkstra's "Kolobrzeg, Poland - July 26, 1992". This image is one from her famous "bather" series - a portrait portfolio of adolescent youth shot on various beaches. This is one of the more iconic images of the set. We see clear ties to past masters - namely of the subject "Birth of Venus" from both Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1862) and the earlier Sandro Botticelli (1482). The picture clearly shows the subject in the Contrapposto stance taken from the past masters. The irony here is that this stance is natural looking in Italian...
Rineke Dijkstra (b.1959) "The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld", 1996/97) Double projection, 2 videos Total time: 26'40''
Visit http://www.guggenheim.org/dijkstra to watch the extended video and more. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim, June 29-October 8, 2012 Guggenheim curator Jennifer Blessing and artist Rineke Dijkstra discuss Dijkstra's four-channel HD video installation The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, UK (2009), which features five individual subjects dancing to their favorite music in a Liverpool club called Krazyhouse. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam. The New York presentation of the exhibition is supported in part by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Net...
An overview of this wonderful book
Rineke Dijkstra's video "I can see a woman crying" in het Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Britse leerlingen van een kunsteducatie-klas filosoferen in TATE Liverpool bij het kijken naar Picasso's schilderij De wenende vrouw. Het werk zelf is voor ons niet zichtbaar. De kinderen lijken te antwoorden op vragen van iemand die buiten beeld blijft. Ze noemen hun observaties, associaties en veronderstellingen naast elkaar. Kenmerkende woorden die ze gebruiken zijn: of, misschien en het lijkt. Ze gebruiken geen 'maar'en gaan niet met elkaar in discussie.
Learn more at http://www.guggenheim.org/dijkstra In conjunction with Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, on view at the Guggenheim Museum June 29-October 8, 2012, leading scholars discussed the role that empathy plays in the interactions among photographer, subject, and viewer. Organized by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, and moderated by George Baker, University of California, Los Angeles. 0:16 - Introduction by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 3:57 - Moderator introduction by George Baker, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles 12:52 - "The Age of Empathy" and Rineke Dijkstra's Photographic Portraits by Jennifer Blessing 37:56 - You've Lost That Loving Feeling by Johanna Burton, Director of th...
Visit http://www.guggenheim.org/dijkstra to watch the extended video and more. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim, June 29--October 8, 2012 The subject of an ongoing series that began in 1994 when she was a young Bosnian girl at a Dutch refugee center for asylum seekers, Almerisa Sehric speaks about her first encounter with artist Rineke Dijkstra. Almerisa discusses how the series has evolved over the course of her life. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam. The New York presentation of the exhibition is supported in part by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Netherlands Cultura...
Visit http://www.guggenheim.org/dijkstra to watch the extended video, view works from the exhibition, and more. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim, June 29-October 8, 2012 Guggenheim curator Jennifer Blessing and artist Rineke Dijkstra discuss Dijkstra's celebrated Beach Portraits (1992--2002) on view in her current retrospective, providing insight into the series and the artist's working method. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam. The New York presentation of the exhibition is supported in part by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the Netherlands Cultural Services, and the Leade...