Rineke dijkstra est née en 1959, à Sittard, aux Pays-Bas. A ses débuts, Rineke dijkstra travaille comme photographe indépendante pour des magazines de presse, réalisant des portraits d'artistes, d'écrivains, d'hommes d'affaires. Un jour, en période estivale, une commande la mène sur une plage de la mer du Nord, en Hollande. Rineke dijkstra y effectue la première image fondatrice d'une série de portraits d'adolescents qui la conduira par la suite sur des plages de Pologne, d'Ukraine, des Etats-Unis et d'Afrique. Une série qui va littéralement transcender le genre du portrait dont la pratique est pourtant courante et constante depuis l'avènement de la photographie.
Ses modalités opératoires sont dès lors parfaitement au point : une prise de vue frontale, un sujet le plus souvent cadré en pieds, un décor minimaliste, à peine suggéré, une mise à profit de la lumière ambiante complétée par un recours au flash, une prise de vue sur négatif couleur faite au moyen d'une chambre photographique, enfin l'adoption systématique d'un principe de pose où le regard du sujet se confronte toujours à l'objectif du photographe.
Par la suite, Rineke Dijkstra développe d'autres séries sur des sujets qui prolongent ses précédents travaux et qui semblent se répondre : collégiens dans les milieux de l'Angleterre traditionnelle, mères venant d'accoucher, toreros à peine sortis de leurs corridas, soldats - légionnaires français ou jeunes appelés en Israël.
Elle se met également à la vidéo et réalise des installations qui reprennent les principes de ses prises de vues photographiques.
Rineke Dijkstra a ainsi donné naissance à une esthétique photographique particulière où la rigueur du point de vue et la maîtrise technique concourent à une seule exigence : atteindre et restituer la grâce du sujet photographié. C'est d'ailleurs tout le mystère de cette artiste : elle fait des portraits, comme d'innombrables photographes n'ont jamais cessé d'en faire , elle maîtrise les procédes techniques qui sont ceux d'une multitude de professionnels de l'image, pourtant une force indicible propulse son regard plus loin. Dans cette part d'étrangeté dont Baudelaire disait qu'elle est inséparable de la beauté, un espace indéfini où flotte la mise à nu de l'essentiel : la fragilité de la présence humaine…
Actualité Les finalistes du Prix Pictet dévoilés !
Les onze finalistes de la cinquième édition du Prix Pictet, qui a pour thème « Consommation », ont été dévoilés à Paris pendant l’ouverture de Paris Photo, Mercredi 13 Novembre 2013.
Les photographes sélectionnés sont :
Adam Bartos (États-‐Unis, 1953) Sélectionné pour la série Braderie de jardin, 2008
Ernie & Mattress 2008, New York State 70 x 47 cm, Archival Pigment Print
Series: Yard Sale Adam Bartos © Prix Pictet Ltd 2013/14
Motoyuki Daifu (Japon, 1985) Sélectionné pour la série Projet de famille, 2007 –2011
Project Family #10 2007, Kanagawa, Japan 50.8 x 61 cm, C-Print
Series: Project Family Motoyuki Daifu © Prix Pictet Ltd 2013/14
Rineke Dijkstra (Pay...Vente Auction " Modern and Contemporary Photographs ", June 3 2015 Auction No. 238 | Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | 5.30 p.m at Villa Grisebach Auktionen
Preview Exhibition: 29 May – 2 June 2015
Friday – Monday 10 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Tuesday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Fasanenstraße 73, 10719 Berlin
More than 250 works of modern and contemporary photography will be sold at Villa Grisebach in Berlin.
Karl Blossfeldt’s pictures of plants, produced in 1915-25 for the Royal Prussian School of Decorative Arts in Berlin, are icons in the history of photography. His „Cotula Coronopifolia, Laugenblume,“ placed in the image like a sculpture, is on offer as a rare vintage print, hand-printed by the artist (€ 22,000/32,000).
Another true rarity is the vintage photogram, created circa 1929, by the American photographer, Walker Evans: The ghostlike appearance o...Exposition Exposition : « PHOTOGRAPHIES La collection du FRAC Auvergne et du Centre national des arts plastiques »
Depuis 2013, le Centre national des arts plastiques a accepté un dépôt de longue durée d’une partie de ses œuvres photographiques majeures au FRAC Auvergne.
Pour cette exposition le FRAC Auvergne a réuni les œuvres du Cnap et celles de sa collection afin de proposer un parcours destiné à aborder les différents statuts de l’image photographique, de sa dimension documentaire à son investissement fictionnel.
Ce parcours permettra la mise en lumière d’artistes historiques au côté d’artistes de la scène émergente. Avec les œuvres de : Michel Campeau - Stéphane Couturier - Thomas Demand - Rineke Dijkstra Geert Goiris - Nan Goldin - Pierre Gonnord - Pascal Kern - Manuela Marq...Exposition Exhibition : « Leaves Of Light And Shadow » by William T. Hillman On 31 March, Christie’s will present the sale of "Leaves Of Light And Shadow: Photographs Gathered By William T. Hillman", comprising 117 works judiciously acquired by William Hillman over the past three decades. With a sophisticated eye and tremendous dedication to photography, Hillman has built a comprehensive collection by pursuing consummate examples from top photographers spanning the history of the medium. In Hillman’s dedication to both photography and his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his primary mission over the past three decades has been to build a world-class collection that will ultimately be gifted to the Carnegie Museum of Art. “There are gaps in the vintage acquisitions and the need to support and strengthen the contemporary component of this endeavor,” Hillman ha...Exposition « Ages, portraits of growing older » : an exhibition in Cologne
Taking 15 artistic perspectives as cases in point, the Ages – Portraits of Growing Older exhibition brings together a variety of, serially arranged, portrait projects. The artists from the USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Russia, Austria, Poland/France and Switzerland were all born between 1923 and 1979. This allows for the work of several generations of artists to enter into a fascinating dialogue with each other against an international backdrop. The main focus is on photography alongside additional filmic approaches as well as painting.
The artists chosen for this exhibition photographed one and the same person, sometimes themselves, regularly and frequently. No matter whether it is Richard Avedon (1923–2004), who captured pictures of his seriously ill father several times during the l...Exposition « This Infinite World » : Set 10 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
For this second anniversary exhibition the British artist and photographer Paul Graham has selected photographers and photographs that are assembled in his investigation of the infinite world of potential images.
© Bieke Depoorter. Untitled, 2012
With This Infinite World Fotomuseum Winterthur presents in this anniversary year its tenth Set exhibition, which captures the 20-year history of the museum in a very special way. None other than the New York-based photographer Paul Graham was invited to curate this second anniversary exhibition following Concrete – Photography and Architecture. With 21 selected works by artists ranging from Diane Arbus to Bertien van Manen, from Lewis Baltz and Luigi Ghirri to Bo...Exposition The Landesgalerie Linz and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung presents "AGES – Portraits of Growing Older"
Taking 15 artistic perspectives as cases in point, the AGES – Portraits of Growing Older exhibition brings together a variety of, serially arranged, portrait projects. The artists from the USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Russia, Austria, Poland/France and Switzerland were all born between 1923 and 1979. This allows for the work of several generations of artists to enter into a fascinating dialogue with each other against an international backdrop. The main focus is on photography alongside additional filmic approaches as well as painting.
Richard Avedon: Jacob Israel Avedon, father of Richard Avedon, Sarasota, Florida, 1969–1973
Jacob Israel Avedon, Sarasota, Florida, August 25, 1973
© The Richard Avedon Foundation. Used by permission
The artists chosen...Exposition The MMK is now presenting « Rineke Dijkstra. The Krazy House »
The most comprehensive exhibition on the Dutch artist to take place in Germany to date.
Rineke Dijkstra is one of the world’s most well-known photo and video artists. At the MMK, she has assembled all of her video installations for the first time, among them two world premieres: They are supplemented by photographic workgroups revolving around how young people come of age in a society shaped by conventions and codes. The two world premiers are “Dress Rehearsal” (2006) and “The Power House”(2007/08). The recordings of the latter video were made in the former Power House Gallery in Memphis. The young dancers, Monica and Maneka, are shown dancing in a white studio set. During the dance sequences they repeatedly lose concentration, break the continuity of their dancing and interrupt the f...Exposition Les photographes du New York Times Magazine à FOAM
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.
The exhibition is cocurated by Kathy Ryan, longtime Photo Editor of the Magazine, and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture Books. The Aperture-produced exhibition is comprised of eleven individual modules, each of which focuses on a notable project or series of projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine.
The featured projects mirror the Magazine's eclecticism, presenting seminal examples of reportage, portraiture, as well as fine art photography. Using visual ...Exposition The New York Times Magazine Photographs at the FOAM
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.
The exhibition is cocurated by Kathy Ryan, longtime Photo Editor of the Magazine, and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture Books. The Aperture-produced exhibition is comprised of eleven individual modules, each of which focuses on a notable project or series of projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine. The featured projects mirror the Magazine’s eclecticism, presenting seminal examples of reportage, portraiture, as well as fine art photography. Using visual mate...Exposition Du document à l'oeuvre au musée de la marine Cette exposition est l’occasion d’un dialogue entre des images issues de la collection de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie et du fonds de photographies du musée national de la Marine. Elle propose des rapprochements formels ou conceptuels, montre des convergences entre deux collections très éloignées l’une de l’autre par leur histoire et leur contenu. Si celle de la MEP, représentative des différentes formes de la création contemporaine en photographie, est connue du public, celle du musée de la Marine demeure encore confidentielle.
Le fonds photographique du musée de la Marine, riche de plusieurs milliers d’images, se constitue dès la fin du xıxe siècle, soit par des cessions de différ...Exposition TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes) TEA (Tenerife Space for The Arts) shows the exhibition Mexico Expected/Unexpected, curated from works in the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection (CIAC).
The exhibition was curated by Monica Amor, with Carlos Basualdo as her main advisor. Basualdo is the curator of Topological Gardens the Bruce Nauman exhibition at the USA Pavilion for the 53rd. Venice Biennial.
The CIAC is one of the most important modern and contemporary art collections in Mexico, and it includes artworks by some major Mexican and international artists.
The curatorial work for this exhibition was based on the inclusive nature of the CIAC collection, regarding the nationality of the artists, which allowed for an exploration of the concept of Mexican culture as it is represented in art and the way in which other proposals—not originated in...Exposition Rineke Dijkstra "Portraits" The Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra (1959) has achieved international acclaim through her powerful cycles of portraits, focusing primarily on highly specific, ordinary people and their individual fates and emotions. Her large-format portraits are simple, rendered in subtle colours yet full of intense expression, classically composed yet charged with an extraordinary emotional force, far removed from any arbitrary stereotypes. The ensemble of work selected for the Prague exhibition is an overview of all the pictorial cycles that Dijkstra created starting in the early 1990s. These include beach portraits, mothers shortly after giving birth, matadors, photographs made in Berlin's Tiergarten, girls in the Liverpool Buzzclub, Israeli solders (male and female), Almerisa, Olivier and two videos entitled Buzzclub, Liverpool, ...Modifier l'image