When you think of the most famous photographers of all time, who comes to mind? Often names such as Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, and William Eggleston
Van 10 maart tot en met 22 juli 2018 exposeert Rineke Dijkstra (Sittard 1959) haar foto- en videowerk in Museum De Pont in Tilburg. Dijkstra brak in de jaren negentig internationaal door met haar serie Strandportretten. Haar werk bevindt zich in collecties van verschillende musea in binnen- en buitenland. Vorig jaar werd Rineke Dijkstra onderscheiden met de prestigieuze Hasselblad Award, een eer…
A new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and moving in June to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, features the Dutch photographer's images of subjects caught in moments of truth.
Architect Bernard Tschumi; Photographer Rineke Dijkstra; Junichi Arai, Textile Designer; and Graphic designer Jan van Toorn are all receiving Honorary Doctorates at the Royal College of Art convocation ceremony at 11am on Friday 1 July 2011. Royal College of Art Honorands are awarded for their significant contribution to culture and industry both internationally and in the UK. The highly distinguished figures will join over four hundred students who are receiving postgraduate degrees from RCA Provost Sir Terence Conran at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery will also receive a Senior Fellowship, and Lord Jonathan Kestenbaum – Chairman and Chief Executive of Five Arrows Limited and Former Chief Executive, NESTA becomes an Honorary Fellow. Swiss-born Bernard Tschumi has had an illustrious career as an architect, theorist, and academic. He has taught at a number of significant schools including the Architectural Association in London and Columbia University, to name a few. Designer of iconic buildings, the New Acropolis Museum is just one of his many accomplishments. Dutch Photographer Rineke Dijkstra trained at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Her award-winning photographs have appeared in numerous international exhibitions, including the 1997 and 2001 Venice Biennale, the 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Turin's Biennale Internationale di Fotografia in 1999, and the 2003 International Center for Photography's Triennial of Photography and Video in New York. Junichi Arai was born in 1932 in Kiryu of Japan. In the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with renowned fashion designers such as Issey Miyake to integrate the innovation of fabrics into fashion design. His work is included in the permanent collections of many museums including the Victoria and Albert museum London and the Museum of Modern Art New York JWorld-renowned Dutch graphic designer, Jan van Toorn began his career in a printing works as a teenager. Since then his work has become synonomous with design at the very highest level of practice. With an international reputation as both designer and educator, In 2009, Van Toorn was invited to give the prestigious D&AD President's Lecture.
Coney Island, New York, 1993 Please note this photograph is unique, printed before the editions of six and fifteen C-print, mounted on aliminium, framed, signed, titled, dated juni 1993 in pencil on the backing 49 by 38 cm. Provenance Stichting Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam Sale, Amsterdam, Sothebys, 21 March 2006, Lot 232, illustrated, where acquired by the present owner Literature H. Visser, Portraits Rineke Dijkstra, Amsterdam 2004, pp. 20, 21, illustrated J. Medvedow, Portraits Rineke Dijkstra, Boston 2011, p. 41, illustrated D. Smith, Rineke Dijkstra The Photographers Gallery, London 1997, illustrated U. Eskildsen, Rineke Dijkstra Menschenschilder, Essen 1998, pp. 12, 13 illustrated (R) Rineke Dijkstra acquired international fame thanks to her impressive portrait series. In the early 1990s she began with work on the magisterial series of Beach Portraits, austere, frontal shots of young people on the beaches in the United States, The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Gabon and the Ukraine (the former Soviet Union). In this series Dijkstra concentrated on the moment that a pose just begins to form, or is just being abandoned. Hesitancy and uncertainty are visible in the bearing and glance and refer to the existential lonliness of adolescents. The surroundings, limited only through the framing, the somewhat low camera angle and the use of a fill-in sharpen the often strongly culturally defined details and reinforce the monumental character of the images. Photographs from this series are included in many national and international museum collections, as the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The major travelling exhibition Rineke Dijkstra was to be seen in Paris, the new photography museum in the Jeu de Paume Winterthur, Fotomuseum (March 11 - May 22, 2005), La Caixa in Barcelona (June 4 - August 21, 2005), at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam until February 6, 2006 and more recently, in 2012, a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisico and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
