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![Self-portraits of inspiring artists: Absolutely adored the work of Rineke Dijkstra, long before I even studied art history. Since the early 1990s, she has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. The dutch artist is best known for her portraits of teenagers by the seaside.
"In 1990 Rineke Dijkstra had a bicycle accident that radically changed her life and the kind of work she made. [...] The first evidence of something new – the first picture of consequence she made after her accident – is a 1991 self-portrait that shows the artist in a bathing suit and cap in a shower after a grueling, thirty-lap swim that was part of her rehabilitation program. [...] In the photograph, Dijkstra is exhausted; making it was almost an act of defiance. She has made a document of an achievement, of returning to health, but it also documents a change in her very being. [...] “It was my first attempt to make a 'natural portrait', one based on reality," Dijkstra says, and she sees this self-portrait as the photograph from which the subsequent Beach Portraits (1992-2002) evolved.”
My favorites, though, are three portraits of mothers with their newborn babies, just after they gave birth. She captured these women in a moment of great vulnerability and overwhelming feelings. The straightforward pose, the unprotected nudity together with the natural lighting gives the images an incredible honesty and intimacy.
Rineke Dijkstra
Self-Portrait, Marnixbad, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 19, 1991
Rineke Dijkstra
Tecla, Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 16, 1994 (censored for instagram)
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Photographs, Exhibitions, Books,…