Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits | 
 enlarge | Creator: Rineke Dijkstra
Publisher: D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel
Category: Book
List Price: $85.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 464181
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 13.2 x 10.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1933045183
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781933045184
ASIN: 1933045183
Publication Date: April 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear and very minor tearing to the dust jacket - small publisher's mark to one side - still very NICE!
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Product Description
Rineke Dijkstra is renowned for her uncanny and thoughtful portraits series of teenagers and young adults: girls and boys of various nationalities at the beach, children of Bosnian refugees, Spanish bullfighters straight out of the arena, Israeli youngsters before and after military service, and here, documented for the first time, her series of photographs taken of aspiring, young ballet dancers. Her subjects are shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background. Formally, the images resemble classical portraiture with their frontally posed figures isolated against minimal backgrounds. Yet, in spite of the uniformity in the photographer's works, there is a marked individuality in each of her subjects. Dijkstra often deals with the development of personality as one moves from adolescence to adulthood, or through a life-changing or potentially threatening experience such as childbirth, or a bullfight. Portraits includes the photographer's new Ballet School series.
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Excellent Book! January 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. I felt as if I were at a small gallery the first time I looked through it. The quality as well as the content are amazing.
Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits January 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a must have to reference a comprehensive collection of Rineke Dijkstra's work. The plates are 9"x12" with excellent color reproductions and the write-ups go beyond the regurgitated art critic articles.
good January 10, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
this ended up being a great holiday gift. good condition. I'm very happy with the purchase.
Super book January 30, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great book, great paper quality, great image quality. A good corpus of Dijkstra's work
If you can't see the large photos displayed at an exhibition get this book November 9, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This afternoon I saw an exhibition of 30-40 of Rineke Dijkstra's portraits at the Stedlijk museum in Amsterdam, and I was very affected by it. The photos seem so simple and innocuous at first glance, but it only takes a second to find what Barthes called a "punctum" (a subjectively conspicuous detail that takes you out of the frame into some, mostly likely ineffable and personal, truth of life, and establishes a direct connection between you and the subject in the photograph) in each one. Most often it is found in the subtlest of details in Dijkstra's photos, or between the photos as montage effect surfaces while moving through one of her series. Innocence and gritty reality seem to engage in a dialectic relationship throughout these works.
"Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits" contains an excellent sampling of Dijkstra work. If only it was 2, 3, or 4 times the size! but then, I suppose, it would be much to expensive for a student like me. In actual fact, the photos in this book are certainly large enough to be appreciated.
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