Retrospective Two

About this book

Published as a companion book to the artists Twenty Year Retrospective Michael Kenna: Retrospective Two presents an overview of Kennas landscape photographs made between 1994 and 2004. Michael Kenna is arguably the most influential landscape photographer of his generation. The subject of over 20 books and hundreds of solo exhibitions throughout Asia Australia Europe and the United States Michael Kenna often works at dawn or during the night. He concentrates primarily on the interaction between the ephemeral atmospheric conditions of the natural landscape and human-made structures and sculptural mass. Kennas exquisitely crafted prints are included in such permanent museum collections as The National Gallery Washington D.C.; The Museum of Decorative Arts Prague; and The Victoria and Albert Museum London. In 2001 Michael Kenna was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. Born in Widnes England in 1953 he currently lives in the USA. The introduction Inventing Peace by Anne W. Tucker explores Kenna s relationship to contemporary photographic ideas.