SIGNED; Rineke Dijkstra - Beach Portraits - 2002

FANTASTIC, HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE PHOTOBOOK by dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra.
SCARCE AND SOUGHT-AFTER BIG-FORMAT MONOGRAPH.

Signed by Rineke Dijkstra.
Signatures by this artist are scarce.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

SUPER FRESH, LIKE NEW AND UNREAD CONDITION.
The book was opened once for the signature.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

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Rineke Dijkstras book "Beaches" was selected by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger as one of the most important books in the history of photography (The Photobook, vol 2, Seite 277).

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Chicago, La Salle Bank NA, 2002. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dust jacket. 265 x 335 mm. 72 pages. 20 colour photos. Photos: Rineke Dijkstra. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside new, mint, unread. Dustjacket with very light trace of use; no remarkable defects. Overall very fine condition (still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil).

Great photobook in fantastic fresh condition - signed by the artist.

Rineke Dijkstra, born 1959, one of the most highly regarded Dutch artists, received international recognition in the early '90s for her eloquent portrait series of teenagers and young adults. The exploration of identity remains central to her powerful images of adolescents, clubbers, soldiers, emigrants, schoolchildren or toreadors. Dijkstra often accompanies her models for years to enable an emotional relationship and trust which leads to the specific intimacy and naturalness evidenced in her photographs and films. In the moving and still images alike, Dijkstra's works encapsulate an intense concentration.

"As an artist, Dijkstra has a patience and sympathy for the people in her pictures, an ability to look carefully at them and to represent what she finds; she shows us their complexities without sentiment and without minimizing the uncertainty, even the traumas they may face. And what she finds are not moral lessons [...] Instead, what we see when we take the time to look at her pictures are the imperfections and the particular grace she finds in ordinary people, especially in the young. Because of their size and their intimacy, her pictures present these moments of insight, glances at what is beautiful and vulnerable, and ask that we see, remember and understand – even that we cherish these moments, because they will disappear."
(S. S. Phillips, Twenty Years of Looking at People in Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2012)