Rineke dijkstra photographer biography book

Condition: Sehr gut. Herzliya Museum of Art and Sommer Contemporary Art galleri, Tel Aviv. Signed bygd Rineke Dijkstra! Colour photo-illustrated paper-covered boards (as issued). x mm. 44 pages. 17 colour photographs. Design by Mevis and van Deursen. ord in english. Condition: inre excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside with little trace of use, stain at the bottom right corner of the rear side; sharp corners. Overall fine condition! Signed by the artist! In Dijkstra was invited bygd the Herzliya Museum of Art to exhibit her photographs of teenagers and children on the beach, together with the film installation The Buzzclub/Mysteryworld. Whilst there she began to conceive a new series of portraits of ung Israeli dock and women at the start of their national service. In the preface she writes: "In my work, inom look for specific characteristics of individual people within group settings. In Israel, I consciously choose soldiers because the a

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Photo Book

Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images

By Aperture

Publisher : Aperture

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The first title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Book Series—featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created and coedited by Drs. Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series reexamines and redresses historical narratives of photography, race, and justice.

Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images examines the transformational role photography plays in shaping ideas and attitudes about race and how photographic images have been instrumental in both perpetuating and combatting racial stereotypes. Written between and and first presented as a monthly feature on the New York Times Lens blog, Berger’s incisive essays help readers see a bigger picture about race through storytelling. By directing attention to the most revealing aspects of images, Berger makes complex iss

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Rineke Dijkstra: portraits

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