Michael Kenna (photographer)
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Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer known for his moody landscapes.
Kenna's educational background includes attendance at Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. Kenna moved to San Francisco in the 1980s.
Kenna's body of work focuses on a variety of subjects, but usually features etheral light achieved by photographing at dawn or in the nighttime with long exposures of up to 10 hours in length. Kenna's view of landscapes is unusual in many ways.
His work has been shown in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in the Asia, Australia, Europe and The United States, and is included in the permanent 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.
[edit] Photo books
- Hokkaido ( Nazraeli Press, 2005)
- Retrospective Two (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2004)
- Boarding School (Nazraeli Press, 2003)
- Japan (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2002)
- Easter Island (Nazraeli Press, 2001)
- Night Work (Nazraeli Press, 2000)
- Michael Kenna - A Twenty Year Retrospective (Treville, 1994 and Nazraeli Press, 2000)
- Le Notre’s Gardens (Ram, 1997)
- The Rouge: Photographs By Michael Kenna (Ram, 1995)
- The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing (The Elkhorn Slough Foundation, 1991)
- Impossible to Forget (Marval and Nazraeli Press, 2001)
