Word: dijkstra
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...largest and most engaging of the exhibits is that of Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra, whose photographs are a striking combination of documentary form and individual portraiture. Rather than defining her subjects through candid snapshots or in personal settings, Dijkstra uses universal locations or themes to document how individuals define themselves in similar contexts...
...Dijkstra adds the effects of time on conceptions of the self in a beautiful series of four photographs, taken of the same Bosnian refugee in the Netherlands over a period of six years. The girl, Almerisa, sits on a chair facing the same direction in all four shots, though the chair and the room change in each picture...
...this big, you get to compare iconic shots like George Hoyningen-Huene's Seated Divers from around 1930--a man and woman seated at the end of a diving board, backs turned to us and peering out at a painted-backdrop sea--with instant classics like one of Rineke Dijkstra's hypnotic pictures of single figures standing upright against the horizon at real beaches around northern Europe. The Hoyningen-Huene is one of the psychic landmarks of fashion photography, a picture in which the clothes matter less than the canny mood, both aerodynamic and dreamy. Dijkstra's shot...
...this big, you get to compare iconic shots like George Hoyningen-Huene's "Seated Divers" from around 1930 - a man and woman seated at the end of a diving board, backs turned to us and peering out at a painted-backdrop sea - with instant classics like one of Rineke Dijkstra's hypnotic pictures of single figures standing upright against the horizon at real beaches around northern Europe. The Hoyningen-Huene is one of the psychic landmarks of fashion photography, a picture in which the clothes matter less than the canny mood, both aerodynamic and dreamy. Dijkstra's shot...