Portraits
Artist: Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke works in series, creating groups of photographs and videos around a specific theme. In 1992, she started making portraits of adolescents posed on beaches from Hilton Head, South Carolina, to Poland and Ukraine. Her people appear from beaches, indefinable space, to haunt us with their imperfect beauty and their needed of existence.
Rineka Dijkstra's beach portraits stand alone appearing to be tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful and sometimes not knowing that they are beautiful, the ocean rolling behind them. Clothed in bathing suits, these young people are striking to behold clear and formally classical, each subject is frontally posed.
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