(1959, Sittard, Holanda)
Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch portrait photographer. Her training stage is at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam between 1981 and 1986.
His first solo exhibition took place at the De Moor Gallery in Amsterdam in 1984.
A key year in the artistic career of Dijkstra is 1991, when he makes a self-portrait in a swimming pool. The emotional state that the artist reflected in that work served as orientation when focusing her creative career. Between 1992 and 1996 he carried out a series of portraits on the beaches of the United States, Poland, England, Ukraine and Croatia and for which he obtained recognition by international critics.
Taking references from the masters of the Dutch and flamenco portrait of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the photographers Diane Arbus and August Sander, and adding their personal style, their work supposes a new representation of the human being in the classical sense, when making a distanced and seemingly objective interpretation of the image. Dijkstra is, above all, a portraitist, who documents in radically classic portraits, with austere compositions and almost identical points of view, moments of transit, such as adolescence or motherhood.
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