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RINEKE DIJKSTRA, (Dutch, b. 1959), KOLOBZEG, POLAND, JULY 23, 1992, signed, titled and dated, "Ko...

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RINEKE DIJKSTRA, (Dutch, b. 1959), KOLOBZEG, POLAND, JULY 23, 1992, signed, titled and dated,  Ko...
RINEKE DIJKSTRA
(Dutch, b. 1959)
KOLOBZEG, POLAND, JULY 23, 1992
signed, titled and dated
"Kolobzeg, Poland, July 23, 1992"
in pencil on verso
chromogenic color print
image: 1313/16 x 111/8 in. (35.1 x 28.3 cm)
paper: 1615/16 x 12 in. (43 x 30.5 cm)
1992
this print is number 5
from an edition of 15
ESTIMATE: $9,000-12,000
<p>PROVENANCE
Mai 36 Galerie, ZURICH
Private Collection, GERMANY
EXHIBITED
BOSTON, Institute of Contemporary Art, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: PORTRAITS,
April 17-July 1, 2001
<p>LITERATURE
Katy Siegel, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: PORTRAITS, Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art with Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2001, p. 53 (illustrated)
Rineke Dijkstra, BEACH PORTRAITS, Chicago, LaSalle Bank, 2002, n.p.
(illustrated)
Referencing both the typological photographs by August Sander and the work of Diane Arbus, Rineke Dijkstra's beach portraits convey the self-consciousness and vulnerability of teenagers. These images successfully capture these universal emotions, since posing in public in nothing but one's bathing suit is rarely a comfortable experience. Dijkstra's subjects are always adolescent, and consistently demonstrate the awkward appearance of the pubescent body. This photograph was taken during Dijkstra's period in Eastern Europe, and may be contrasted against her earlier beach portraits in the Netherlands and the United States. As Katy Siegel points out in her text "Real People," Dijkstra's Eastern European works "show teenagers in unfashionable, outdated swimsuits, occasionally in their underwear or street clothing. The body types as well seem to vary more widely, including more extremely thin and overweight teens, more knock-knees; their poses are less artful and more solemn. Dijkstra's Eastern European teens seem at a great cultural distance from the affluent and fashionable Americans" (Katy Siegel, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: PORTRAITS, p. 9).