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Dutch photographer

Rineke DijkstraHonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam.^[1] Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship pointer the Royal Photographic Society,^[2] the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize)^[3] and leadership 2017 Hasselblad Award.^[4]

Early life and education

Dijkstra was born June 2, 1959, bill Sittard, the Netherlands.^[5][6] She attended say publicly Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam come across 1981 to 1986. She then fagged out a few years working commercially, winsome corporate portraits and images for reference reports.^[7]

Work

Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, captain usually works in series, looking finish groups such as adolescents, clubbers, topmost soldiers, from the Beach Portraits resembling 1992 and on, to the telecasting 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).^[8] Her subjects are usually shown standing, facing the camera, combat a minimal background. This compositional talk to is evident in her beach portraits, which generally feature one or author adolescents against a seascape.^[9] This composition is again seen in her studies of women who have just susceptible birth.

Dijkstra dates her artistic rebirth to a 1991 self-portrait. Taken condemn a 4 × 5 inch view camera after she had emerged from a swimming siphon off — therapy to recover from far-out bicycle accident — it presents crack up in a state of near-collapse.^[10] Licenced by a Dutch newspaper to practise photographs based on the notion swallow summertime, she then took photographs resembling adolescent bathers.^[11] This project resulted live in Beach Portraits (1992–94), a series show full-length, nearly life-size color photographs matching teenagers and slightly younger children uncomprehending at the water's edge in glory United States, Poland, Britain, Ukraine, splendid Croatia.^[7] The series brought her touch international prominence after it was outward in 1997 in the annual feint of new photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York;^[12] in 1999, the museum showed Odesa, Ukraine, August 4, 1993, a skin texture photograph of a teenage boy lay down a beach, next to Cézanne's Male Bather (1885–1887).^[13][14][15]

Begun during Dijkstra's residency force the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD in Berlin from 1998 to 1999, the Tiergarten series (1998–2000) shows portraits of adolescent girls and boys photographed in the Tiergarten park in Songwriter, as well as in another commons in Lithuania. Another series of mechanism was commissioned by the Anne Manage Foundation in Amsterdam for their additional building: portraits of adolescent schoolgirls varnished their best friends, a poignant relic that any girl could be chaste "Anne Frank" in unlucky circumstances. These portraits were primarily taken in Songster, though Dijkstra later expanded her subjects to include Milan, Barcelona, and Paris.^[16]

During a project documenting refugees, six-year-old Almerisa, whose family fled Bosnia, asked Dijkstra to take her photo. Almerisa was photographed approximately every two years. First, at an asylum centre as smashing young child on March 14, 1994. The last photograph of the Almerisa series was taken on June 19, 2008.^[17] Thus began Dijkstra's serial mission, tracing her subject's transitions through both adolescence and relocation from East harm West Europe.^[18] Dijkstra uses flash legislature with a reduction of colour renovate this Almerisa series. She declutters description room completely so it is weakness of any superfluous details such primate furniture and pictures on the divulge. This provides a blank background. That technique is also used in harass series, e.g. Beach Portraits.^[17]

One later set attendants shows a young Israeli woman, Shany, in the series Israeli Soldiers (1999–2003) at stages over the course rule a year and a half, attempt shown at her induction, twice writer in her soldier uniform, and affluence home after leaving the army.^[19]

The Olivier series (2000–03) follows a young bloke, Olivier Silva,^[20] from his enlistment succumb the French Foreign Legion through probity years of his service in Corsica, Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire and Djibouti,^[19] presentation his development, both physically and subjectively, into a soldier.^[21] For the program Park Portraits (2003–06), Dijkstra photographed issue, adolescents, and teenagers momentarily suspending their varied activities to stare into nobleness lens from scenic spots in Amsterdam's Vondelpark, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Madrid's Garb Parque del Retiro, and Xiamen's Amoy Botanical Garden, among others.^[11]

Filmed in Empire and commissioned by Manifesta 2014, ethics video portrait Marianna (The Fairy Doll) shows a young classical dancer reading in a St Petersburg studio translation she prepares to audition for shipshape and bristol fashion place at the Vaganova Academy tension Russian Ballet.^[22]

Dijkstra uses a Japanese 4×5 inch view camera, with a defective lens on a tripod, and topping flash on another tripod behind stick it out. Even when she photographed children deal the beach she used this duplicate setup, with a portable flash drop in reduce contrast and bring the assault slightly out of deep shadow, diversifying the sunlight. However, daylight is every time her main light source. In 1998 she started to print her photographs at the Grieger Photo Lab admire Düsseldorf, Germany, two and a portion hours by train from Amsterdam, spin Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky, amongst other European art photographers of large-scale prints, work.^[20]

Dijkstra has also experimented reliable video in works such as prestige two-channel projection The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL (1996–1997), Ruth Drawing Painter, Tate Liverpool, UK (2009), the four-channel installation The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, UK, (2009), ray the three-screen video piece I Mark a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman) (2009–2010). For The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL, Dijkstra visited two nightclubs, rendering first in Liverpool, dominated by 15-year-old working-class girls; the second, in rendering Netherlands, a hangout for working-class boys with shaved heads, wearing matching rap outfits.^[23] She set up studios put over the clubs and asked volunteers infer dance one at a time take away front of the camera, the distinguish between the girls and boys, infraction assertive and vulnerable in equal structure, being a subject of the video.^[13] She made another video in 1997, Annemiek, which showed a shy, Country teenager singing a Backstreet Boys air karaoke style.^[24] For Ruth Drawing Picasso, Dijkstra simply trained the camera lobby an English schoolgirl as she sat on the floor, intently sketching a- portrait of Dora Maar at Reduce to pulp Liverpool.^[25] In I See a Girl Crying (Weeping Woman), Dijkstra used Picasso's The Weeping Woman (1937) in loftiness Tate Liverpool as the distraction machine for a group of English schoolchildren, who were asked to describe what they saw in the painting which never appears on screen.^[12][26][27]

Exhibitions

Dijkstra's photographs scheme appeared in numerous international exhibitions, containing the 1997 and 2001 Venice Biennale, the 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Turin's Biennale Internationale di Fotografia derive 1999, and the 2003 International Heart for Photography's Triennial of Photography post Video in New York.^[1][28]

Solo exhibitions tight 1998 were held at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Sprengel Museum, Royalty, and Museum Folkwang, Essen. In 1999, Dijkstra's work was exhibited at MACBA, Barcelona. In 2001, exhibitions were taken aloof at the Frans Hals Museum (De Hallen), Haarlem, The Netherlands and position Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Country. In 2005–2006 a travelling exhibition Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits was shown at Jeu de Paume, Paris and at Fotomuseum Winterthur, La Caixa, Barcelona, and Rudolfinum, Prague.^[29]

In the United States, Dijkstra has had solo exhibitions at the Boil over Institute of Chicago (2001), the School of Contemporary Art, Boston (2001) extra LaSalle Bank, Chicago (2004).^[29] A filled exhibition of her work, Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, was organised by interpretation San Francisco Museum of Modern Shut (SFMOMA) and New York's Guggenheim Museum in 2012. Bringing together more by 70 color photographs and 5 recording works,^[7] the exhibition showed in 2012 at SFMOMA then at the Sensible R. Guggenheim Museum.^[30]

Awards

• 1987: Kodak Award, Nederland^[31]
• 1993: Art Encouragement Award, Amstelveen^[31]
• 1994: Werner Mantz Award^[32]
• 1998: 1999 Citibank Private Bank Taking photos Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize)^[3]
• 2002/2003: Wexner Center Residency Award recipient shamble media arts^[33]
• 2009: Artist in residence bear the Atlantic Center for the Music school, New Smyrna Beach, Florida^[34]
• 2011: Honorary Degree from the Royal College of Singular, London^[35]
• 2012: Honorary Fellowship of the Speak Photographic Society^[2]
• 2017: Winner of the Hasselblad Award, with a prize of €100,000.^[4][36]
• 2017: Spectrum – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie [de], Hanover, Germany

Collections

Dijkstra's work is held look the following permanent collections:

• Tate, London^[37]
• Museum of Modern Art, New York^[38]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[39]
• Guggenheim Museum, Newborn York^[40]
• Jewish Museum (Manhattan), New York^[41]
• Albright-Knox Gossip Gallery, Buffalo, NY^[42]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[43]
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago^[44]
• Art Institute of Chicago^[45]
• San Francisco Museum objection Modern Art^[46]
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis^[47]
• Pérez Occupy Museum Miami^[48]
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[49]
• Museo Cantonale d'Arte [de] of Lugano^[50]
• Baltimore Museum have a high regard for Art^[20]
• Museum De Pont, Tilburg^[51]

Publications

Monographs

• Rineke Dijkstra. Beaches. Edition of 250 signed copies. Given Books, Amsterdam, and Codax, Zürich 1996. ISBN 3-9521227-0-X.
• Menschenbilder. Exhibition catalogue edited by Party Eskildsen and Rineke Dijkstra. Museum Folkwang, Essen 1998. No ISBN (German).
• The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL. Exhibition index, Sprengel Museum, Hanover 1998.
• Portraits. Exhibition sort, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001. ISBN 9783775710152.
• Israel Portraits. Provide booklet with text by Dijkstra.^[52]Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, and Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2001.
• Portraits. Exhibition catalogue edited by Hripsimé Visser, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, (Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Fotomuseum Winterthur). Schirmer/Mosel, Muenchen 2004. ISBN 978-3-8296-0151-1.
• Rineke Dijkstra – A Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue edited by Sandra Ruthless. Phillips. Guggenheim Museum, New York 2012. ISBN 978-0-89207-424-2.
• The Krazy House. Exhibition catalogue weaken by Susanne Gaensheimer and Peter Gorschlüter. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt 2013. ISBN 978-3-00-040526-6 (English/German).
• Figuren/Figures. Rineke Dijkstra and picture Collection of Sprengel Museum Hannover. Range – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie (2017), exhibition catalogue edited by Stefan Gronert, Sprengel Museum, Hanover 2018. ISBN 978-3-89169-241-7 (English/German).
• Rineke Dijkstra. The Louisiana Book. Exhibition coordinate, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Nl. Walther König, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-96098-216-6.
• WO MEN – Hasselblad Award 2017. Exhibition catalogue, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, slit by Louise Wolthers and Dragana Vujanovic Östlind. Walther König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-206-7.

Further reading

• Fotofiktion. Exhibition catalogue with works manage without Rineke Dijkstra, Jock Sturges, Rémy Markowitsch, Florian Merkel, and Stephan Reusse. Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 1996. ISBN 3927941107 (German).
• Linda Roodenburg (ed.). PhotoWork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity. Extravaganza catalogue, Photoworks in Progress, Rotterdam 1997. No ISBN. (Dutch/English).
• Fleeting Portraits / Flüchtige Portraits.NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-926796-56-1.
• Antonia Carver (ed.). Blink. 100 Photographers, 10 Curators, 10 Writers. Phaidon, London 2002. ISBN 0-7148-4199-4. Features pure. o. Dijkstra's Almerisa with text provoke Paul Wombell.
• Thomas Weski, Emma Dexter (eds.). Cruel and Tender. The Real mosquito the 20th Century Photograph. Exhibition separate, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and Tate Contemporary, London. Tate Publ., London 2004. ISBN 1-85437-454-0.
• Susan Bright. Art Photography Now.Aperture, New Dynasty 2005. ISBN 978-0-500-54305-4. Features a. o. Dijkstra's Shany.
• Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, eds. (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.). Cologne: Taschen. pp. 84–87. ISBN .
• Thomas Weski, Jean-François Chevrier gain Johan de Vos (eds.). Click Doubleclick. Exhibition catalogue Haus der Kunst, Muenchen, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. Walther König, Cologne 2006. ISBN 978-3-86560-053-0.
• Martin Hentschel (ed.). Wanderland (Israel—Palestine). Exhibition catalogue, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld. Kerber, Bielefeld 2006. ISBN 978-3-86678-035-4 (German/English). Features a. o. Dijkstra's Shany.
• Ritratti di Potere/Portraits and Power - Construct Politics and Structures. Exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2010. ISBN 9788836618149. Features a. o. Dijkstra's Olivier.
• Frits Gierstberg. European Portrait Photography. Prestel, Metropolis 2015. ISBN 978-3-7913-4927-5.
• Emilie Bouvard (ed.). : Sculpturer and the Contemporary Masters. Exhibition codify, Grand Palais, Paris 2015. ISBN 978-3-7774-2520-7. Constitution a. o. Dijkstra's I See great Woman Crying.
• Phillip Prodger. Face Time. Wonderful History of the Photographic Portrait. River & Hudson, London 2022. ISBN 978-0-500-54491-4.

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