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 enlarge | Author: Rineke Dijkstra
Publisher: Distributed in the US, D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
ISBN: 0910663602
EAN: 9780910663601
ASIN: 0910663602
Publication Date: 2001
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 The truth is startling November 2, 2005
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This series of portraits is very plain in many ways, but contains some striking images. The cover photo is an example - it took me a moment to realize that the model had just come back from wading.
Other pictures have that same double-take effect, including a mother and child series of nudes. Each is a full-length, frontal (almost confrontational) view of the woman holding her new baby, just a few hours old. Baby cuteness takes some time to develop, more time than these children have had in the world. The mothers haven't had time to recover, either, still stretched but no longer filled. They hardly match either conventional beauty or the romanticized vision of motherhood. That line of blood down the inside of one woman's leg isn't very romantic at all. It's just very true. This series of photos, more than any other I can think of, keeps me coming back to look again, and to see the pictures a little differently each time.
Many of the photos in this collection did very little for me. That's probably a good thing. If the whole set had the density if its most demanding images, it would have created its own gravitational field.
//wiredweird
Where's the Ballet School series? September 6, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great selection, beautiful reproductions, but one small disappointment: even though the Amazon Editorial Review promises that "Portraits includes the photographer's new Ballet School series" I've only found one photo from that series (I might have overlooked some because the book is not ordered completely chronologically).
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