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Koenig Books

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Hardcover, 10 x 13 in. / 328 pgs / 231 color.

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Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 24   

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ISBN 9783960982166 TRADE
List Price: $68.00 CDN $90.00

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Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

Edited by Michael Juul Holm. Text by Poul Erik Tjner, Thomas Weski, Hans den Hartog Jager.

Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

With elegance, vulnerability and candor, Dijkstra has created a portraiture style of profound encounter

Rineke Dijkstra is a master of capturing the individual in transition. Best known for her photographs of preadolescent bathers on the beach, she has also produced iconic images of mothers shortly after giving birth, teen soldiers in Israel, bullfighters bloodied after the fight. Dijkstra rigorously maintains a classical format, isolating her figures against stark backgrounds and posing them frontally or in three-quarters view. Within this strict format, the individuality of each sitter makes itself seen in their bodys particularitiesthe unique way their back slouches, their mouth sets, their hair falls across their eyes. Dijkstra uses a 4x5 field cameraa slow, laborious piece of equipment that creates, in the artists words, a space where things can happen. The people I shoot really have to open themselves up to me. And I have to open up, too. Its an interaction.

Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book offers a retrospective survey of the life and work of the photographer. Scholars introduce her complete oeuvre chronologically in easy-to-read essays, providing information about her working methods and discussing her artistic development. Dijkstras best-known bodies of work are represented, including her long-term series of Beach Portraits (19922012), in a comprehensive section of color plates.

Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra (born 1959) is known for her stark portraits. She first attracted international attention in the late 1980s for her photographs of club-goers in the Netherlands, but found her breakthrough subject matter in 1992 when she was commissioned by a Dutch newspaper to take photographs exploring the idea of summertimeleading her to the renowned Beach Portraits series.


Featured image, "Hilton Head Island S.C., USA, June 27, 1992," is reproduced from 'Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

L'Officiel

Sara Moroz

Dijkstra's signature is her ability to spotlight subjects intimately, yet completely without sentimentality.

Document Journal

Dijkstra has developed a singular vision of youth, one that no ad agency could conjure, by providing the image as is, free of her nostalgia or yours. One where youth stands on its own two legs, or hunched over, proud, shy or content in its unknowingness.

Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/6/2018

"Once youve stood on the edge of the abyss, it doesnt matter how you got there." Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

"Once youve stood on the edge of the abyss, it doesnt matter how you got there." Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

This 1994 portrait of a Portuguese bullfighter is reproduced from Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book, the beautiful new retrospective catalogue collecting all of the influential Dutch photographers most iconic portrait series. Oversized and exquisitely printed on luxe paper, this 328-page door-stopper is literally mesmerizing. In their lesser-known Portuguese style of bullfighting, the bull is not killed but pressed to the ground by a team of men, Hans den Hartog Jager writes. One of the men is responsible for jumping straight onto the front of the bullbut this role is not assigned until the last minute. Only then does the front man hear that he will soon almost literally be staring danger and death in the eyes. It was these front men that Dijkstra chose to portray, just after they had left the arena. Strikingly, they show almost the same emotions as [new] mothers: a mixture of pride, relief, and exhaustion. The very different source of those emotions seems to make no difference for the picture. Once youve stood on the edge of the abyss, it doesnt matter how you got there. continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/30/2018

Inscrutable and disorienting: Rineke Dijkstra

Inscrutable and disorienting: Rineke Dijkstra

These two portraits of an Israeli soldier, Evgenya, in civilian dress and in uniform, taken nine months apart in 2002, are reproduced from the Louisiana Museums superb new Rineke Dijkstra retrospective. "The power of the series lies in Dijkstras subtle but thorough avoidance of clich, Hans den Hartog Jager writes. The girls dont look especially pained in their regulation army outfits, or especially relieved or liberated at home. Instead, their expressions throughout the series are so inscrutable that the viewers gaze seems to bounce right off of them. As a viewer, you realize that your interpretation of the photo says a great deal about your own attitude toward uniforms, freedom, war, and major social dilemmas. continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/5/2018

NEW! Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

NEW! Rineke Dijkstra: The Louisiana Book

Most people know Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra for her iconic portraits of young people at the beach, coolly staring at the photographer while standing very still in their bathing suits, the ocean always to their backs. And its truetheres something about these unguarded, mostly 1990s photographs that infiltrates the mind, very quietly making them impossible to forget. Other seriesincluding bullfighters, new mothers, Israeli soldiers, and club kids, to name a feware equally powerful, adding up to one of the most significant bodies of portraiture of the last century and earning Dijkstra the 2017 Hasselblad Award. Pictured here is Almerisa, Asylum Center Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, March 14, 1994, the first in an ongoing series of portraits of a Bosnian refugee. See more in the stellar new retrospective catalogue from the Louisiana Museum, Denmark. continue to blog


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