Rineke Dijkstra valuation
Dutch portrait photographer known for her large colour pictures of adolescents on beaches.
Rineke Dijkstra (born 1959) was born in Sittard, in the Netherlands, and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986.
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Bio
Rineke Dijkstra (born 1959) was born in Sittard, in the Netherlands, and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1981 to 1986. She made her name with the Beach Portraits of 1992 and after, in which young people stand facing the camera against the sea, and she works in series, photographing adolescents, clubbers, soldiers and women who have just given birth. Some series follow one subject over years, among them Almerisa (1994–2005). She has also made video installations such as Buzzclub/Mysteryworld. She won the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 1999 and the Hasselblad Award in 2017, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York organised a retrospective in 2012.
What comes to market is mostly chromogenic colour prints, made in numbered editions and sometimes in more than one size. A buyer will want to know the edition, the size, and whether the work comes with a label or certificate from the artist's gallery. Colour prints are sensitive to light, so a print should be checked for fading, as well as for scuffs and for damage to the mount, and a buyer will ask how it has been displayed.
At a glance
- Born
- 2 June 1959, Sittard
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