CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/5/2018

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 it’s true—there’s something about these unguarded, mostly 1990s photographs that infiltrates the mind, very quietly making them impossible to forget. Other series—including bullfighters, new mothers, Israeli soldiers, and club kids, to name a few—are 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.