Beach Portraits. by DIJKSTRA, Rineke

Chicago, IL: La Salle Bank, 2003. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features a foreword by Thomas C. Heagy, a statement by James N. Wood along with essays by Carol Ehler and James Rondeau. A collection of 20 color photographs by Dijkstra. A fine copy in cloth boards and in fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautifully produced book that was never offered for sale and includes images from Dijkstra most iconic body of work.

Lesalle Bank, Chicago, 2003. hardcover. fine. Tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful, and sometimes unknowingly beautiful, the adolescents in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits stand alone, the ocean rolling behind them. Clad in little more than bathing suits, these young people are striking to behold. Remarkably clear and formally classical, each subject is frontally posed and shot straight on; the resulting photographs participate in a cold, quasi-scientific categorization reminiscent of the work of August Sander and Thomas Ruff. Yet Dijkstra's pictures are not just that--there is also something of the eccentric in them, something that comes closer to Diane Arbus's images. Seen together, the complete series of 20 Beach Portraits creates a kind of collective portrait of the existential insecurity and awkward beauty of youth., Essays by Carol Ehlers and James Rondeau. , Foreword by Thomas C. Heagy.

Chicago LaSalle Bank 2002. Hardcover in dustjacket, 72 pages with 20 four-color plates, 34X27cm. English text. IN VERY FINE CONDITION!! NEW!!. ISBN 9780970245229. Essays by Caroline Ehlers and James Rondeau. Tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful, and sometimes unknowingly beautiful, the adolescents in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits stand alone, the ocean rolling behind them. Clad in little more than bathing suits, these young people are striking to behold. Remarkably clear and formally classical, each subject is frontally posed and shot straight on; the resulting photographs participate in a cold, quasi-scientific categorization reminiscent of the work of August Sander and Thomas Ruff. Yet Dijkstra's pictures are not just that--there is also something of the eccentric in them, something that comes closer to Diane Arbus's images. Seen together, the complete series of 20 Beach Portraits creates a kind of collective portrait of the existential insecurity… Read More

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2002. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. 4to. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Edited by Carol Ehlers and james Rondeau. Striking color photographs of children clad in bathing suits. An early title by Dijkstra which is now long out of print. Monograph.