Rineke Dijkstra Quotes

• I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

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  Attitude, Trying, Identity

  Rineke Dijkstra (2001). “פרויקט יישרעלי”

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• With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

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  People, Emotion, Aging

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• As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

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  Reality, Photographer, Moments

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• For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

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  Photography, People, Ordinary

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• A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

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  Lying, Matter, Kind

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• For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no one can completely understand someone else. I know very well what Diane Arbus means when she says that one cannot crawl into someone else's skin, but there is always an urge to do so anyway. I want to awaken definite sympathies for the person I have photographed.

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  Loneliness, Mean, Skins

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• I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

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  Gente, Importante, Necesidades

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• I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

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  Beach, Self, Portraits

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• Creo que mi trabajo se ha vuelto más tranquilo, y que la violencia de algunas de las primeras series era necesaria para alcanzar el mayor grado de concentración de las últimas.

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  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

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