Past Exhibition

Exhibition: Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra, Lycée Hector Guimard, Paris, March 19, 1999, March 19, 1999, printed 2000, chromogenic print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of The Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Washington DC), 2014.136.416

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    East Building, Concourse Elevator Lobby, CLA-98
Rineke Dijkstra, Lycée Hector Guimard, Paris, March 19, 1999, March 19, 1999, printed 2000, chromogenic print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of The Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Washington DC), 2014.136.416

Active as a photographer since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra is known for her strikingly earnest, unsentimental depictions of young people in large-scale color prints. Shooting from a low vantage point with minimal background information, she endows her subjects with a monumental presence, creating portraits that are at once self-conscious but revealing, powerful but tender. This installation features four of Dijkstra’s portraits of adolescents, as well as the 1991 self-portrait that inspired much of her later work. It is timed to coincide with the installation of I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman), a three-channel video of British schoolchildren talking about Picasso’s painting Weeping Woman, on view in the East Building’s display of Collectors Committee gifts.

Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.