Michael Kenna (photographer)

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For the Chicago politician Michael Kenna, see Michael Kenna.

Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer known for his 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.[1]

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. 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. 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.

Contents

[edit] Photo books

  • Mont-Saint-Michel (21st Editions, 2007)
  • Mont St Michel (Nazraeli Press, 2007)
  • Montecito Garden (Nazraeli Press, 2007)
  • Hokkaido (Nazraeli Press, 2005)
  • Retrospective Two (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2004)
  • Boarding School (Nazraeli Press, 2003)
  • Calais Lace (Nazraeli Press, 2003)
  • Japan (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2002)
  • Easter Island (Nazraeli Press, 2001)
  • Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After (Marval and Nazraeli Press, 2001)
  • Night Work (Nazraeli Press, 2000)
  • Le Notre’s Gardens (The Huntington Library, Art Collections Library and RAM Publishing, 1997 and 1999)
  • The Silverado Squatters (The Arion Press, 1996)
  • The Rouge (Ram, 1995)
  • A Twenty Year Retrospective (Editions Treville, 1994, Nazraeli Press, 2002)
  • The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing (The Elkhorn Slough Foundation, 1991)
  • Le Desert de Retz (Arion Press, 1990)
  • Michael Kenna (Min Gallery, 1990)
  • Night Walk (Friends of Photography, 1987)
  • 1976-1986 (Gallery MIN, 1987)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (The Arion Press, 1985 and Northpoint Press, 1986)
  • Michael Kenna Photographs (Stephen Wirtz Gallery and The Weston Gallery, 1984)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Printed for Ruth Bernhard

[edit] External links

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