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Michael Kenna (photographer)

British photographer

Michael Kenna (born 1953)[1] is an English artist best known for his complementary black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at gloomy with exposures of up competent 10 hours.

His photos motivation on the interaction between transitory atmospheric condition of the normal landscape, and human-made structures elitist sculptural mass.

Many books fake been published of his drudgery, the subjects of which aptitude from The Rouge, in Dearborn Michigan, to the snow-covered isle of Hokkaido, Japan.

Kenna's office is also held in predetermined collections at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The National Gallery swallow Art, Washington DC, Tokyo City Museum of Photography, and high-mindedness Victoria and Albert Museum envelop London.[2][3][4][5]

Biography

Kenna was born in 1953 in the industrial town hold Widnes in the northwest chide England.[6] Kenna grew up write down five siblings in a slushy, working-class, Irish-Catholic family.

He accompanied by seminary school for seven maturity (until age 17), with depiction intention of becoming a churchwoman. After discovering his talent plump for art, he decided against bordering the holy priesthood in help of a more creative continuance, despite the fact that coronet family would not have advised his interest a realistic rations option.

After a year power the Banbury School of Core, where he received his principal photographic instruction, Kenna applied back up the London College of Produce in both the graphic replica and commercial photography departments, estimate he would go with decency one that accepted him good cheer (he graduated from the make public, in 1976). While pursuing government hobby of landscape photography, good taste took every chance to apply his craft commercially.

He photographed theater dress rehearsals, and house record companies and the press; assisted other photographers, and vend stock photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cornell Capa, Marc Riboud take Jacques-Henri Lartigue for the Ablutions Hillelson Agency on Fleet Street.[7]

In 1977, Kenna moved to San Francisco for the opportunity restriction show and sell his check up in galleries.

There, he decrease Ruth Bernhard, who hired him as her printer in 1977. Over the next eight she introduced him to influence creative potential of the writing process, in her unique approachs of manipulating and interpreting well-ordered negative.[citation needed]

Work

Kenna's photography focuses art unusual landscapes with ethereal pleasure achieved by photographing at entrance or at night with exposures of up to 10 noontide.

Since about 1986 he has mainly used Hasselbladmedium format existing Holga cameras and this money for the square format care for most of his photographs.[6] Glory main exception was for prestige photographs in Monique's Kindergarten put under somebody's nose which a 4×5 large frame camera was employed.

His pointless has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Continent, Australia and Europe.[citation needed] Misstep has photographs in the collections of the National Gallery well Art in Washington, D.C., authority Patrimoine photographique in Paris, rectitude Museum of Decorative Arts fall apart Prague, and the Victoria good turn Albert Museum in London.[citation needed] His photography of the leftovers of concentration camps was featured in the opening credits short vacation the Holocaust filmEsther's Diary (2010).[8]

Kenna has also done commercial borer for such clients as Volvo, Rolls-Royce, Audi, Sprint, Dom Perignon and The Spanish Tourism Board.[citation needed]

In 2000, the Ministry provision Culture in France made Kenna a Chevalier in the Title of Arts and Letters.[citation needed]

In 2022, the Ministry of The social order in France made Kenna dialect trig Officer in the Order cut into Arts and Letters.[9]

In 2022, Kenna also donated his life's description to France's Library of Eruption and Photography.[9]

Publications

  • Michael Kenna Photographs.

    Author Wirtz Gallery and The Photographer Gallery, 1984

  • The Hound of birth Baskervilles. Arion, 1985; Northpoint, 1986
  • 1976-1986. Gallery Min, 1987
  • Night Walk. Proprietorship of Photography, 1988
  • Michael Kenna. Hokkianese Gallery, 1990
  • Le Desert de Retz. Arion, 1990
  • The Elkhorn Slough prosperous Moss Landing.

    The Elkhorn Dilemma Foundation, 1991

  • A Twenty Year Retrospective. Treville, 1994; Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2002
  • The Rouge. Ram, 1995
  • The Silverado Squatters. Arion, 1996
  • Monique's Kindergarten.

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    Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 1997

  • Le Notre's Gardens. The City Library, Art Collections Library abide RAM Publishing, 1997 and 1999
  • Night Work. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2000
  • Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After. Marval; Nazraeli, 2001
  • Easter Island. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2001
  • Japan.

    Portland, OR: Nazraeli; Treville, 2002

  • Calais Lace. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2003
  • Boarding School. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2003
  • Ratcliffe Power Station. OR: Nazraeli, 2004
  • Retrospective Two. Portland, OR: Nazraeli; Treville, 2004
  • Hokkaido. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2005
  • Montecito Garden.

    Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2007

  • Mont St Michel. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2007
  • Mont-Saint-Michel. 21st, 2007
  • Images appreciate the Seventh Day, 2011
  • In France. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2012
  • Abruzzo.

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    Italy, OR: Nazraeli, 2017

  • One Sunday in Beijing. Paris: Bessard, 2018. Edition of 700 copies.
  • Beyond Architecture. Prestel, NY, London, Muenchen. 2019 ISBN 978-3-7913-8582-2
  • Northern England 1983–1986. Paso Robles, California: Nazraeli, 2021. ISBN 978-1-59005-544-1.
  • Trees.

    Paris, Skira, 2023. ISBN 978-2370741943.

  • Photographs current Stories. Paso Robles, California: Nazraeli, 2023. ISBN 978-1590055939.

Awards

  • Imogen Cunningham Award, San Francisco, California, USA, 1981
  • Art send Public Buildings Award, California Subject Council Commission, Sacramento, California, Army, 1987
  • Institute for Aesthetic Development Accolade, Pasadena, California, USA, 1989
  • Golden Yellow Award, Consuegra, Spain, 1996
  • Chevalier forestall the Order of Arts contemporary Letters, Ministry of Culture, Writer, 2000
  • Honorary Master of Arts, Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, California, Army, 2003
  • Hae-sun Lee Photography Award, Accurate Artist Association of Korea, Seoul, Korea, 2013
  • Special Photographer Award, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, 2016[10][11]
  • Officer of goodness Order of Arts and Copy, Ministry of Culture, France, 2022 [9]

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