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"Coney Island, N.Y., U.S.A, June 20, 1993," from Beach Portraits

Photograph of a light-skinned adolescent girl with straight, shoulder-length brown hair, arms at her sides. She wears a black, one-piece swimsuit and stands on a beach, looking away from the water and directly into the camera. A small wave crashes into the beach behind her, beneath a gray sky.

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  • Photograph of a light-skinned adolescent girl with straight, shoulder-length brown hair, arms at her sides. She wears a black, one-piece swimsuit and stands on a beach, looking away from the water and directly into the camera. A small wave crashes into the beach behind her, beneath a gray sky.

Date:

1993

Artist:

Rineke Dijkstra
Dutch, born 1959

About this artwork

Rineke Dijkstra’s images of adolescent bathers, photographed on beaches in the United States and Eastern Europe since 1992, have established the artist as an important figure in contemporary art and one of the most visible and highly regarded Dutch artists of her generation. Dijkstra’s portraits of children and adolescents—alone and in small groups—are characterized by a remarkable formal classicism, psychological depth, and conceptual rigor. In many respects, the artist’s cool detachment and clinical attention to detail can be understood in documentary terms. Taken as a whole, Dijkstra’s project might be understood as a quasi-scientific, cross-cultural, sociological study of human behavior in front of a camera.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Rineke Dijkstra

Title

"Coney Island, N.Y., U.S.A, June 20, 1993," from Beach Portraits

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1992–1998

Medium

Chromogenic print; from an edition of six with two artist's proofs

Dimensions

Image: 130 × 104 cm (51 3/16 × 41 in.); Paper: 162 × 136 cm (63 13/16 × 53 9/16 in.); frame: 168 × 141 × 4.2 cm (66 3/16 × 55 9/16 × 1 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of LaSalle Bank

Reference Number

2003.89.5

Extended information about this artwork

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