Photographer - Michael Kenna
Nationality: British
Subject of photography: black & white landscapes
Life dates: 1953
Sample of work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kenna_(photographer)
Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes.
Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. In the 1980s, Kenna moved to San Francisco and worked as Ruth Bernhard's printer.
Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. Since about 1986 he has mainly used Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras and this accounts for the square format of most of his photographs. The main exception was for the photographs in Monique's Kindergarten for which a 4 x 5 large format camera was employed.
His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He also has photographs included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His photography of the ruins of concentration camps was featured in the opening credits of the Holocaust film Esther's Diary (2010).
In 2000, the Ministry of Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.
In 2006, Kenna wrote the preface to Humans, a photo-series by Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Mirzaei.
In 2011, Kenna wrote the preface to The Art of Adventure, a photographic monograph by Scottish photographer Bruce Percy.
Photobooks
In France. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2012
Images of the Seventh Day, 2011
Mont-Saint-Michel. 21st, 2007
Mont St Michel. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2007
Montecito Garden. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2007
Hokkaido. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2005
Retrospective Two. Portland, OR: Nazraeli; Treville Editions, 2004
Ratcliffe Power Station. OR: Nazraeli, 2004
Boarding School. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2003
Calais Lace. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2003
Japan. Portland, OR: Nazraeli; Treville Editions, 2002
Easter Island. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2001
Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After. Marval; Nazraeli, 2001
Night Work. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2000
Le Notre’s Gardens. The Huntington Library, Art Collections Library and RAM Publishing, 1997 and 1999
Monique's Kindergarten. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 1997
The Silverado Squatters. Arion, 1996
The Rouge. Ram, 1995
A Twenty Year Retrospective. Treville, 1994; Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2002
The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing. The Elkhorn Slough Foundation, 1991
Le Desert de Retz. Arion, 1990
Michael Kenna. Min Gallery, 1990
Night Walk. Friends of Photography, 1987
1976-1986. Gallery Min, 1987
The Hound of the Baskervilles. Arion, 1985; Northpoint, 1986
Michael Kenna Photographs. Stephen Wirtz Gallery and The Weston Gallery, 1984
Awards
Honorary Master of Arts (Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2003)
Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (Ministry of Culture, France, 2000)
Golden Saffron Award, (Consuegra, Spain, 1996)
Institute for Aesthetic Development Award (Pasadena, California, USA, 1989)
Art in Public Buildings Award (California Arts Council Commission, Sacramento, California, USA, 1987)
Imogen Cunningham Award (San Francisco, California, USA, 1981)
Links:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kenna_(photographer)
www.michaelkenna.net/
www.artnet.com/artists/michael-kenna/
www.josephbellows.com/artists/michael-kenna/bio/
www.trinixy.ru/michael_kenna.html
www.amazon.com/Michael-Kenna/e/B001I797BM
www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/photographers/conversations/michael-kenna/
www.expositions.bnf.fr/kenna/en/bio.htm
www.thenocturnes.com/resources/kenna.html
www.beetlesandhuxley.com/exhibitions/michael-kenna.html
www.whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/24569-michael-kenna-recent-photographs
www.photographymonthly.com/Tips-and-Techniques/Pro-Zone/Michael-Kenna-The-Master-of-landscape
www.allposters.com/-st/Michael-Kenna-Posters_c25684_.htm
Subject of photography: black & white landscapes
Life dates: 1953
Sample of work:
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Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes.
Kenna attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. In the 1980s, Kenna moved to San Francisco and worked as Ruth Bernhard's printer.
Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. Since about 1986 he has mainly used Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras and this accounts for the square format of most of his photographs. The main exception was for the photographs in Monique's Kindergarten for which a 4 x 5 large format camera was employed.
His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He also has photographs included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Patrimoine photographique in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His photography of the ruins of concentration camps was featured in the opening credits of the Holocaust film Esther's Diary (2010).
In 2000, the Ministry of Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.
In 2006, Kenna wrote the preface to Humans, a photo-series by Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Mirzaei.
In 2011, Kenna wrote the preface to The Art of Adventure, a photographic monograph by Scottish photographer Bruce Percy.
Photobooks
In France. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2012
Images of the Seventh Day, 2011
Mont-Saint-Michel. 21st, 2007
Mont St Michel. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2007
Montecito Garden. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2007
Hokkaido. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2005
Retrospective Two. Portland, OR: Nazraeli; Treville Editions, 2004
Ratcliffe Power Station. OR: Nazraeli, 2004
Boarding School. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2003
Calais Lace. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2003
Japan. Portland, OR: Nazraeli; Treville Editions, 2002
Easter Island. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2001
Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After. Marval; Nazraeli, 2001
Night Work. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2000
Le Notre’s Gardens. The Huntington Library, Art Collections Library and RAM Publishing, 1997 and 1999
Monique's Kindergarten. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 1997
The Silverado Squatters. Arion, 1996
The Rouge. Ram, 1995
A Twenty Year Retrospective. Treville, 1994; Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2002
The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing. The Elkhorn Slough Foundation, 1991
Le Desert de Retz. Arion, 1990
Michael Kenna. Min Gallery, 1990
Night Walk. Friends of Photography, 1987
1976-1986. Gallery Min, 1987
The Hound of the Baskervilles. Arion, 1985; Northpoint, 1986
Michael Kenna Photographs. Stephen Wirtz Gallery and The Weston Gallery, 1984
Awards
Honorary Master of Arts (Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2003)
Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (Ministry of Culture, France, 2000)
Golden Saffron Award, (Consuegra, Spain, 1996)
Institute for Aesthetic Development Award (Pasadena, California, USA, 1989)
Art in Public Buildings Award (California Arts Council Commission, Sacramento, California, USA, 1987)
Imogen Cunningham Award (San Francisco, California, USA, 1981)
Links:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kenna_(photographer)
www.michaelkenna.net/
www.artnet.com/artists/michael-kenna/
www.josephbellows.com/artists/michael-kenna/bio/
www.trinixy.ru/michael_kenna.html
www.amazon.com/Michael-Kenna/e/B001I797BM
www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/photographers/conversations/michael-kenna/
www.expositions.bnf.fr/kenna/en/bio.htm
www.thenocturnes.com/resources/kenna.html
www.beetlesandhuxley.com/exhibitions/michael-kenna.html
www.whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/24569-michael-kenna-recent-photographs
www.photographymonthly.com/Tips-and-Techniques/Pro-Zone/Michael-Kenna-The-Master-of-landscape
www.allposters.com/-st/Michael-Kenna-Posters_c25684_.htm
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